Everyone has options, Diptrace, KiCad, DesignSpark, you just choose not to use them, whether it be for learning curve purposes or whatever.
Everyone keeps banging on about how Element 14 are dropping Eagle because of Circuit Studio or whatever they are calling it now, it's still 3 - 4 x more expensive than the professional Eagle version. And to be honest, even if they stopped development of Eagle today I would bet that people would still be using the latest version (7.3 at the time of writing) in 20 - 30 years' time.
You have obviously got your reasons for moving away, but it seems to have served you well in the interim, and if you hated it you wouldn't use it, it might not be your favourite, but it gets the job done, and once you have spent time learning how it works, it works well.
It's not the only package with features missing or bugs, and people are still making open source hardware projects with it and producing a lot of content with Eagle, so it can't be that bad!