Yesterday I created a poll for the Twitterati asking if they were going to upgrade at least 1 machine in their collection to AmigaOS 3.2. 178 total votes were recorded over 24 hours, which I think is a pretty great response.
And I have to admit that 50% of respondents being on the fence kind of surprised me. I originally assumed folks would know, at least philosophically speaking, if they were going to go for it or not right off the bat.
I didn't invest in 3.1.4 and honestly now I'm kind of glad. 3.2 sounds really nice. If you like to use your Amiga (or at least one of them) as a "blinged out" machine that simply provides a lot less friction, it seems like a slam dunk.
For me, nearly all of my Amigas are shrines to the past. I'll very quickly stick a SCSI2SD card in any of them, however. I don't even have to think twice about that. That kind of stuff doesn't really impact my nostalgia; it just makes me worry less overall. And if I'm on an Amiga 1000 or 2000 or whatever, I'm not really needing it to look and feel like Windows 95 (that's not a put-down). It's a time machine, a Tardis if you will, I'm totally fine riding in a swirling cylinder of blue. But I also totally understand the thrill folks have taking their 30 year old hardware into the present. It's pretty cool.
Ironically, as I type this I realize now I'm also in that 50%. The only machine I have running 3.1 is currently on a shelf as it is. I know it's not always popular, but I really like the fact that it is a Commodore-created OS in a Commodore-created machine.
But I also like the idea of what 3.2 has to offer some Amigans in 2021. I can tell a ton of work went into it. I'd be much more inclined to get 3.2 for my one machine running 3.1 even if I wind up not upgrading it for a long time. Or ever.