I got Dorico Elements and honestly think I could be more productive using Studio One's in-built score editor. I like the modularization, btu they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater by removing the entire Engrave page from the Elements SKU.

And it's in the iPad App, which is odd, cause Elements costs ~3 Annual Subscriptions up-front.

I understand the market segment they are gunning for with Dorico Pro, but Elements does exists. So, for anyone below that, these weird feature disparities make very little sense and result in a workflow that becomes very messy quite quickly.

It doesn't help that Steinberg is beyond tight lipped when it comes to upcoming releases. Clearly, Dorico 4 is coming. Clearly, we will know almost nothing about it until days before its release.

Will I waste my time waiting for Dorico 4, while slugging it out with Notion 6; or should I buy Sibelius | Standard now to get Dorico Elements' feature set with the ability to do at least basic formatting of the score without paying over twice as much as the cost of that Sibelius SKU?