I thought Nova was going the way of dinosaurs (i.e. there's only one developer left to support it).
Edit to add: Unlikely that Google will do anything about it. What will users do - switch to iOS? Also, is it completely in Google's hands, since stock launchers on third party devices such as OnePlus, Samsung, et al continue to work quite well.
Either it will get incredibly better, or it will just fade out (except in some applications like execution of process based work, and possibly in the creative arts).
Digital - easier to carry and to handle while reading. Plus u can read on a phone/laptop in dark environments as well. However for reading on a plane, where I'm sitting in one place, I somehow prefer physical books as they're less painful than looking at a lit up screen for extended periods of time.
I love your way of describing it, more than anything else!
That's why I used to maintain a blog (a secret one, whose address no one knew). Till the day I realised there's too much there which I don't want to be able to go through, and deleted the blog in a snap.
The v8 series has quite a few nifty upgrades which makes quite the value add over the v7 series.
Further, i don't think the lag issue is resolved in the v7 series.
Curious though, why do u recommend the v7.0.57?