KK3: let's talk about Preset Edit and View improvements

I've been off for a while, not actively visiting the NI forums for a very long time. But as it seems, I didn't miss anything, as simply nothing has changed or progressed since one year, at least when it comes to the aspect of the higly requested "backwards compatibility" for the KK3 application and its plugin version.

Obviously NI is still following the same old policy which is hostile to existing users and their prioritized requests. Still no realization by NI on the damage which has been created so far, as long-time customers have been left behind since introducing KK3 in conjunction with the latest NI MK3 keyboard. No single evidence in the meantime that the needs of the bigger part of the NI community have been addressed, e.g. by letting important KK functionality return which was already implemented in KK2 but was dropped for incomprehensible reasons. @Matthew_NI promised about more than one year ago that our customer requests will be heard and at least some features will be brought back "very soon". None of that has happened yet.

Now we can be almost sure that NI will never bring back any of those appreciated features we once knew, not even the most important ones which have been demanded so many times already, like the "sample drag and drop" feature or any other KK2 goodies like "property editing". Instead, NI exclusively stays focussed on functionality which is exclusively serving the newer MK3 keyboard user community. As there is not even a progress visible for KK3, it seems like NI's goal is also to drop that application very soon and to implement its limited functionality in their forthcoming Kontakt versions. After all, KK was always claimed to be a "free" application only (which is now not even part of the "Komplete Start" package anymore). Why should NI support and maintain such an application when Kontakt has anyway become a 1:1 clone already? Maybe the goal behind that move is to force all NI users who want to maintain a "KK experience" (if any) in the future to upgrade to the latest Kontakt version, in best case on a yearly basis. But still there won't be any guarantee that those old "cross-device" respectively "cross-application" based functionalities will ever return then at all.

NI simply forgot about all those users which ars still appreciating the functional value of the KK2 application and all the benefints it has offered, even in conjunction with the older MK2 keyboard (which is btw. not EOL yet). Even if you look at the latest KK 3.3.4 version just tested, immediately so many bugs are still present there, for example in conjunction with the MK2 keyboard control and workflow (keyword: mutual control/screen/status update in either direction).

My patience is slowly running out, that's why I'll have to make a decision very soon. If I don't see any behavior change until EO March '25, my decision will be very clear. I will stop supporting NI by not purchasing any updates or even new products anymore. I guess many existing NI customers think exactly like I do. We don't want to get fooled, and we are tired of fighting for functionality which has been already there for a while but was incorrectly deemed "not important enough" by NI. They simply haven't done their homework properly and they are obviosuly not willing to learn from the past.