I didn't read the complete thread now, but A7 has an major advantage,
A Giant Community, the forum is active independent from Time, and its nice documented. A good coder would do the workshops and thats it, no more need, the rest is documentation. That's my way to develop software, 1st "read the fuckin manual" wink , 2nd search the forums & use Google, 3rd ask in the forums.
T3D documentation is a little to wired.

my minds ...

greetz

zem