It's a huge improvement and much simpler to use, absolutely no question about it. No skier weight to set every skier, no wind adjust to worry about, the crew weight doesn't seem to be very critical (I leave mine at 350 lbs unless we have more than 2 in the boat), no rpm tweaking (we always ran in Tournament mode so we could easily adjust the rpm as necessary), basically just turn it on and go. The issue is navagating the thing to get to the different screens to make the initial setups and adjustments. BUT, once you get it tweaked out it's simply turn it on and go. In my previous boat with even the first early version of the software I had little trouble dialing in the times. The new version gives you a lot more to work with making it easier to get your times nailed. I need the cheat sheet to get to stuff I don't often have to get to so I can remember how to get to it if I need to tweak something.