I'm happy in that I was able to buy some stuff this year. I think last year I skipped it, not so much because I wasn't monitoring the sales or anything but just because the offerings were not aligning to what I was looking for. The year prior to that I think I bought about $1,500 - $2000 so I did a lot of catch up on things back then that I had been wanting for ages.
This year I ended up getting nine titles, consisting of two movies and seven CE. I had pity a pretty big haul from Crunchyroll, making sure to take advantage of the sales that were worth it, cuz they're still overpriced on most items even when they go on sale, but there's always stuff you can find if you look hard enough.
I am already looking forward to next year though. Like everyone else, I hope that their processes next year are better, because there's major room for improvement and I believe we all appreciate and respect these companies for doing what they do and just want them to get better at it. I'm hoping that by this time next year some of these series that we see being split out will be made into combined limited editions and some of the series that we've been waiting for get released, especially when it comes to the older stuff. I like it when they make some of the older stuff that exist only in DVD and give them fresh images on a Blu-ray. So I'm starting my countdown now... 353 days to go!