I started with CR5, yes, it was always much larger than VFP's RW offering. There have been minor charting enhancements over the years, but nothing huge. But it remains the best overall report writer out there.

I don't utilize the statistical aspects of CR at all - I treat it as an extension of the UI, and I do all the necessary processing/crunching outside of CR and then push the data in. I did that when I used VFP with CR, and I still do the same thing with .NET and CR.

CR's strengths, more than any other reporting tool, are what you can do to display the data you pass it. I worked on a year-long reporting project for an insurance company with a large number of documents and some pretty complicated formatting requirements. 99% of the time, CR provided the options so that I could give the business users what they wanted. CR exporting is better than anything else out there (go export an SSRS report with subreports and see what happens).

Kevin