I can understand frustration from users who use MAX for animation, but really, as someone who does only ArchViz, MAX is fine as is. If they add/alter things that make my workflow/life easier or improve VP speed, etc, then great. If not, well I already manage fine. I just fail to see why those using it for animation keep complaining when Maya has always been superior for that over the last 10 years anyway, at least in my eyes. Maybe I'm ignorant or misinformed.
TBH, anything is better than the pile of crap 2013 was/is. I use it at my office and its slow, buggy and frustrating as hell to work with in a timely manner. 2014 at home has been peachy, so any improvements that actually work for 2015 will be nice.
Still, no matter how much they say it, I don't trust Autodesk to listen to their user base and understand why so many are jumping ship.