What I said was "What happens if my Provari breaks down 2-3 years from now and I
buy version 3 which turns out to be not nearly as reliable, and as a result I go back to smoking analogs?"
Well, three things would probably happen:
1) you will probably die much sooner, because you are back to smoking analogues,
2) Your money will go to Big Tobacco instead of small entrepreneurs in the vape industry, so your lack of willpower and resourcefulness will be partially responsible for any downturns in that sector, and
3) You will have proven yourself to be a neo-luddite incapable of adapting to advancing technology, and a brand-loyal consumerist sheeple, who won't even consider that some other brand might be making something even BETTER than Provari in 3 years, and we'll all laugh at you and shake our heads ruefully as you fall back on 17th century technology to consume your nicotine...
If you are REALLY that concerned with your paranoia that new tech will be inferior to old tech, then perhaps you need to do what people who are collectors and aficionados of semi-automatic rifles did this election cycle, because they fear that the current administration will make their beloved tech impossible to obtain in the future--STOCKPILE.
Buy one or two spare Provaris and put them in your safe, or seal them in a vacuum bag and bury them in your back yard, or something. It's not like unused, unpowered, dry-stored electronics go stale or something. I mean if you REALLY fear that your beloved version of your Provari won't be available or fixable in 3 years, then you need to hedge for your future
vaping NOW. I know people who have hundreds of 20- and 30-round magazines and dozens of firing pins and spring sets for their AR's and AKs because they think they might not be able to get them in 4 years. Maybe you should do the same with your Provari.
Be a Provari Prepper--stockpiling cases of 18650s, spare springs, spare endcaps, and half a dozen full units packed in vacuum bags in anticipation of the future Zombie Apocalypse where Provari magically is transformed into a company that has abandoned it's loyal customer base, won't service their old units, and is producing mods that are somewhere below a mid-'80s Jaguar in terms of reliability.
Personally, I don't see that happening--Provari has such an exemplary track record with regards to customer service and reliability that the mere insinuation that they would abandon you in a couple years is bordering on slander...
Maybe you missed the keywords 'reliable" and "as a result" in there? As in 3 months after purchase one of the new bells and whistles causes it to fail leaving me with a backup thats far from satisfying and increases the temptation to smoke again.
I've been in the tech field for over 2 decades. I can't think of a single instance where a reliable company with a sterling reputation released an "upgraded" version of their tech and the new features "caused" catastrophic failures of their system. (Well, actually that happens EVERY TIME Micro$oft issues an "upgrade" for their software, but notice I said "a reliable company" with a "sterling reputation", NOT a "company run by a software-stealing thief who was set up by his daddy with connections in the Military-Industrial Complex, who's business model is BASED on charging to service a product they KNOW to be faulty...)
The idea that the "next big upgrade" from Provari is somehow going to be a pile of bovine excrement--after this company has made NOTHING but solid-gold mods since their inception is pretty insulting to the integrity of ProVape, it's engineers, and it's owner.
Just because you don't like (or more likely, don't understand) a new technology does not automatically make it bad or inferior. And just because a company might adopt that new tech doesn't mean their entire product line and business model is going to go down the crapper.
You should be ashamed for even suggesting that.
Maybe you should just go buy a carton of analogs right now, and do us all a favor...