My thoughts exactly. I think I have now tried almost every car with the new patch and got almost no damage at all to the clutches (unless I really tried).
Probably the people who have problems are infact flatshifting or lifting too little or their timing is off or something.
The cars in LFS don't have a "tiptronic", they have H-gearboxes. Which means, you have to drive like a H-gearbox even if your controller is a bit different. The computer handles the clutch for you, if you want, but the rest is up to you.
Bare in mind that S3 isn't going to be released any time soon, there will a lot of holidays between now and S3 release
The bottom line is, what many people fail to understand by waiting for S3 is: The longer you wait, the less you will get for your money. or worded differently: The longer you wait, the more expensive LFS will be for you.
The winners here are the people who bought S1 when it first came out, they have had the most play time you could possibly get for the amount LFS costs.
I don't think it has anything to do with the money. Well, it may be part of it in the US and some other countries, because of the horrible exchange rates. But anyway, I think the majority wouldn't buy no matter how low the price. People are so obsessed of getting everything for free these days.
Well, it's not going to get any cheaper* then. The price is the same if you pay now or if you pay when S3 comes out, only difference is that if you pay now you can play S2 now.