Whilst I personally adopt your approach as well. If I'm going to buy soemthing then I make sure I'm not going to need to upgrade as soon as I get a real graps of the subject, we must remember that there are those amongst us who might simply want to take camera footage and transfer to DVD with little to no actual editing. In which case the cheap and cheerful s/w will do the job quite nicely.

It is a good point though. If you have access to Premier already then just use that would be my advice. So what if you only use 5% of all the features. At least you have scope to leanr and do more.