I honestly find the cad portion of bobcad sucks so all my designing is done in another cad software . Due to a move a while back my old personal email and phone number has changed which makes it impossible for sales to contact me anymore (which I don't mind ) . Because of that I have no idea what their upgrade options are , that is if they even offer them anymore like they once did .. I can't compare price point to other softwares since I haven't paid much attention to it over the past few years .
I tried fusion and it works but I don't like it for a multitude of reasons . A lower cost subscription option is solidworks for makers . I had a subscription for that over a year which I'd look at every so often over a morning coffee and I really didn't like the feel of that either .
Plus I don't have faith in subscriptions, or cloud based bs
Most of my work is surfacing and machining metal . I think if I was still running a router for wood products then I'd look at aspire or something to that effect . For 2d there is dolphincam and lesser known shopcam , both are reasonably priced and work well
What license issue are you having , did it drop the license ? All my older versions from what I am using have dropped their licenses , and when I try to reregister them they say they are in use . I'm not sure wtf happened but it's like they were all pinged around the same period of time . They don't support versions older than 5 now so I'm guessing they are dead in the water
It might be worth talking to someone in sales at bobcad if your happy with the software . If they still offer reasonable upgrade options then maybe stick with what you know and are comfortable with . Otherwise contact the support guys regarding your license