My thoughts are that its AMAZINGLY USEFUL to be able to use PT First as a test bed for plugins....i dont feel like destroying my work machines evertime i install some world destroying plugin masquerading as malware, and I dont feel like paying for machine with PT on it to sit there idle.....If nothing else, make it so you could run 1 or 2 3rd party plugins to do tests and see if it works properly....
we are always going to buy the full versions of PT ANYWAY, but this seemed like a cool idea...a zero cost test bed...??