Must admit I did purchase an original license for vB. The support was great (most of the time) but iirc I had to slip a guru a few dollars to fix up problems I had over the years. One good thing was the Tapatalk forum app (not sure if there is such a thing for IPS?).
But yeah, it was forever going wrong with database issues, an awkward backend system that required a degree in fathoming, expensive licenses and really lost it's direction from v4.
Shame!