People set in their ways? Well, I've been using Macs since 1984 (still have my 128K logic board), and the move to OS X (version 10.1) was the best thing that ever happened. Yes, OS X 10.0 was rough around the edges, but people had to be brought up to speed on the architectures.
From where I sit, I don't know how much longer I could stand rebooting my computer in 9, when the program I was developing crashed. The amount of wasted time over a year had to be weeks.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Ha! OS 9 was so broken it wasn't funny! Patches on top of patches on top of patches - bleech. Three cheers to the engineers who kept it going, but good riddance it's gone.
Jaguar a pain in the rear? Nope, the leaps and bounds the engineers have made in that release are quantum.
I'm wondering if the graphics industry was reluctant to move to OS X because of OS X or was it their dependency on Quark. I can understand that there has to be a real business decision to move to Quark for OS X (especially with their 'activate software' copy protection), but I bet there are folks in graphics that have made the move to OS X without too many growing pains. Speaking of dependancies, from what I understand, Adobe software took a little while to rid itself of the OS 9 memory model. (Did I say patches on top of patches on top of patches?) If you're into Photoshop and Illustrator, you had a wait until the OS X versions were available. But now that they are, what's holding someone back (besides bucks?)
So, I have been more than happy with OS X. The stability, ability to do multiple things 'at once' and not having to use that silly access manager for my ISP (having to reinstall it because Opentransport was updated was ludicrist!) are the selling factors for me.
I haven't been in OS 9 except to test my software and I'm moving to Mach-o, which means no more 9! Yippee!!!
John