Stager is shambolically bad

My sentiments exactly!  I'd go as far as saying the Stager program (despite beuatiful render results) is a serious impediment to creative energy & flow!

The most unreliable software & package I have ever experienced.  Constant material change displaying from design view (ray tracing off -on) in program.  The viewport navigation so sluggish and chugs along as if at it's own pace.

I, unfortunately, didn't know, when eager to subscribe, the M1 Mac wasn't supported natively.  So stupid was I.

I purchased a Windows machine (for a whole other project / purpose), yet the PC version (of Stager) seem problematic also.  And I didn't scimp on the graphics and CPU kit.

Yet similar issues as with the Mac version.

I'd like my subscription money back - just for being a beta tester and having my hours of frustration affecting my passion for creativity!

Let's not start on "when" things may change. From the sounds of it, I don't believe Adobe Management give a flying.... about UX in this space (or other).  They've become institutionalised.

If it wasn't for every so often being impressed with the results of renders (despite the minimal amount of actual result I'd produced), and the hope things will get better... I would have given up months ago, shortly after I was sucked into the vortex of possibilities.

Shame on Adobe for the subscript - greed over customer satisfaction.

I'll be changing my subscription soon enough as a protest, if the next update doesn't drop soon.

As enough is enough.

Disgruntled to say the least!

Honestly Jeanette, anything that will help me at this current time is more than welcome. I appreciate your response I understand I said some harsh things here, but you must surely understand my frustration of having dealt with this for the best part of a year. 
Since writing this I've encountered a new error with stager, which seems to be exclusive to my laptop. 

Specs of which are:

RAZER Blade Advanced (2018)

-i9 (unsure which model)

- GTX 1070 max-q

- 32gb Ram 

- 1TB 970 EVO SSD

After about 15 minutes of use in a brand new file, the undo function just simply ceases to work, and after 30 minutes of use with the program, I encounter a never-ending loading wheel for what seems to be no reason. Everything else within the program continues to work except for undo. 

I can't seem to replicate this on my desktop PC, Absolutely bizarre.

It's worth mentioning that some but not all of the issues I listed in my main post are also apparent on my Laptop. 

I've also spoken to my peers at University and many of them have reported similar issues albeit on less powerful machines, but nobody should have to spend £3000+ on a machine just to use the Adobe suite. 

The growing level of performance inconsistency across the suite is something that's becoming more and more apparent as time goes on, not only from speaking to people but also what can be found here on the forums. It's honestly reaching a point of lunacy that Adobe charge what they charge for these programs vs the amount of problems people experience every single day.

It's utterly embarrassing for Adobe, and its going to be embarrassing for me as a customer to say I pay £600 a year for this sub-par experience. I cant imagine the weight you must feel as one of the CC product managers, but I think theres only so long that this can go on for before the majority of people start to realise that Adobe as a company isn't what it once was. Because if a worthy competitor comes along, which Adobe yet doesn't really have, I can see people jumping ship fast.

I understand every application has its issues. No program is free of bugs and glitches, thats perfectly understandable. But when a free fully-fledged 3D program like Blender works almost flawlessly against something like the very expensive Stager, a scene rendering tool, which constantly crashes, constantly complains, or has fundamental functions that just cease to work, the question of "Do they even care?" starts to arise. 

Stager is a fundamentally much more simple program compared to Blender or Maya, yet it has 10x more issues. How does that come to be? Bad coding? Poor optimisation? Surely a company as large and as dominant as Adobe can outpace a much smaller company comprised of 24 people? The evidence would suggest otherwise. Now that is embarrassing. 

Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve is a perfect example of people looking for alternatives. Word is catching on quickly about Resolves outright superiority in almost every aspect of the program, and the thing is, it's a one-off payment. I know as the word spreads people are jumping over to Resolve more and more and unless you guys change your entire approach to how you deal with strategy and pricing, and just your attitudes towards the design and functionality of your programs as a whole, Adobe will die a slow death.