How to Determine if InDesign 20.0 is Worth Upgrading for Stability and Performance

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Please tell me i'm wrong, but I've looked through the "What's New" page, and watched the presentation about InDesign from Max, and for the life of me, I can't find a reason worth upgrading.  The new features seem like they're only useful for pretty niche workflows, or features that already exist in other apps more suited to those features.  It feels kind of like how Seth Meyer's describes the set up for his "Surprise Inspection" segment, the developers just pulled things from other apps to fulfill the assignment.  I can't find any info about "stability" or "performance" improvements, but so far, that would really be the only reason I can imagine upgrading for, and those improvements would have to be significant for it to be worth it.  
 
Right now, I'm dealing with documents that crash every few mintes, and the best advice I've been given from Adobe Support is to save an IDML and/or start from scratch.  IDML doesn't help more than a little bit, and starting from scratch isn't really an option when you have less than a week to finish a 140 page magazine.  If I update InDesign, then I have to pay for an updated version of the critical plug-in I use every day.  So I'm asking, in all sincerity, will InDesign 20.0 actually be an improvement?  What reason can I use to justify to my boss that it's worth upgrading so it's worth paying for the updated plug-ins? Or am I overthinking it, and it's okay to just accept that I'll have to stick with InDesign 19 for another year?
 
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HD Schellnack · Answer

It feels kind of like how Seth Meyer's describes the set up for his "Surprise Inspection" segment&#128514;Apart from the fact that ID20 has serious problems (slow, lagging, beachball) on our M1 machines, none of the new features feel like they make sense in a software for editorial design. I am a big fan of LLM, be it in text-generation or image-generation (although I feel that Firefly is not even close to the best option), love the new healing brush in PS and am at the very least intrigued by what KI can do in Illustrator. But in Indesign, if you need KI here at all, it would be completely different solutions  and really not image-generation, which is done in PS. if you work with AdobeExpress instead of Canva, the «export to» could make sense and save time. HTML-Export ist, as it ever has been, nothing for serious use. There's a pretty long list of featured ID could offer for what it is actually made for – but instead we get Firefly shoehorned in because «KI» is the new shiny toy.  In a software designed for print publications, it's almost a bit weird. &#128516;

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