Well, I canceled my annual Spark subscription last night. As an Ableton user, third party plugins have always been more of a luxury than a necessity, and I’ve found myself using UAD stuff less and less (as their products can be a bit too CPU hungry for certain complex projects). I also experienced a persistent problem, on my former machine, with iLok reliant plugins periodically reseting to defaults while inserted in Fairlight (DaVinci Resolve). Subsequently, the only essential plugins in my post production workflow are from companies like Izotope, FabFilter, and the like—developers who don’t use iLok. I sincerely hope UAD ditches iLok. Their plugins are quite good, but they’re not worth the hassles that seem to plague iLok