>You may well be right, Steven. . . I'll have to wait and see.
>But I *do* get along pretty well with the PM the way it is, and USERS have *never* asked me to make things "better" in that area, so I do remain skeptical.

Did users ask you to improve the debugger from version 3 to version 5?
Did users ask for right-click while editing a method to set a breakpoint in VFP 6?
Did users ask for a coverage logger and profiler for testing your code?
Did users ask for forgetting to release object references to GPF less often in VFP 5?

Chances are they didn't, but your improved tools have improved their applications.