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Haha, I mean, for me the grass is greener. Just sharing my experience since the question was asked.
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That grass is looking mighty green right about now.
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I just don’t like the UI on those ERPs like Acumatica and NetSuite. I think Epicor still has some better tooling, and the UI is more elegant even in Kinetic, probably too many accordions.
But I do like that you can just like in ARAS build super custom code in Visual Studio and publish it, literally your own C#, or JavaScript Client Side.
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My initial experience with Epicor SaaS was very much like this ten years ago. Scaling has been an issue BEFORE the push away from on prem, so I’m a little concerned for the future.
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Yeah but like, uptime is everything. Flex systems that were NOT supposed to have any maintenance yesterday went down yesterday. Entered a P1 ticket. Here we are 16 hours later and the ticket never even got acknowledged. Yeah the system is back up this morning but what good does a great UI do if the system won’t run when you need it to?
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Lest anyone thinks I disagree with Haso about UI, we are in agreement here. I think a preferable UI solution is configurable for the expert and easily navigable by the novice. But for either of these, the UI should guide the user to do things correctly for your business processes. It’s so easy for users of any experience to make mistakes in ERP systems. When a user has to remember to do it one way for one scenario and that way for another, things get messed up. With all the fields always available, it makes tools like directives more difficult to write to enforce business logic.
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Yike!!
Where does data warehousing and summarization factor into that math??
Data Cartels 
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I only have extensive experience in a couple of different systems, but I have no doubt this is true.
I have thought about why this is, and I keep coming back to one thing - the software tries to do everything, and consequently, does nothing very well.
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And that’s every ERP system, isn’t it? 
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I think that ERP’s do start out very effectively solving the author’s problem in the author’s domain. Some escape into the wild, some of those get patched by the author as they collide with reality, some of those get acquired before the author burns out. New ownership limits work to new features because “everything worked perfectly fine when we bought it” so if anything existing breaks, developers must have done something to break it.
Eventually we end up with dozens of ERP’s frozen in carbonite getting a new curtains and paint every year or two.
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Why version 1.0.0 if not release?! dial that version string back a hair mister! lol
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Maybe he’s playing a Microsoft and it won’t be usable until version 3.x 
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if he only has one version number he will still be ahead of SOME people 
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WfW_3.11 sounds like a good release version…
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Switching cost is not as bad in today’s world
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Customers have lot of options these days. Odoo, ERPNext/Frappe are both decent and open source. However, every ERP has it’s own quirks!
Above all, it’s the total cost. If Epicor could offer it at a lower cost and some self hosted option, I don’t think anyone in Epicor eco system will even consider switching.
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