yeah i'd join you in that class action suit.
i got max 8 and 2013, but i'd rather have some version inbetween those.
i've modified max 8 to all hell, and it's now fairly nice and fast, opens in a split second.
max 2013 on the other hand is a complete turd.
first and foremost it starts extremely slowly compared to max 8.
second, most of the things broken in max 8 is still broken in max 2013.
in addition there are now new things that are broken, especially the UV editor.
there's navigation problems in the UV editor, where the zoom and movement suddenly becomes ultra-sensitive,
and unfold mapping breaks up all of the UVs.
select from scene also opens annoyingly slowly.
oh yeah, and the planar mapping was changed to where the helvetes thing just fills the UV space.
only way to turn off the distortion of UVs is to turn off normalize. and then your UVs turn enormous.
which means you have to spend 9/10 of your time planar mapping rescaling the jævla UVs.
and don't even get me started on the nitrous viewport.. urgh.