This is an issue I've been developing with Maya. Parts of it feel so piece meal because there's all this stuff tacked on. The features create buzz on an upcoming release then crawl forward if at all. Why can't we have a comprehensive nSolver at the heart of Maya instead of a little of this and that plugins that were acquired? Why can't I see sprites or instances in viewport 2.0, or even sphere particle types, hell anything other than points in wireframe mode? Ugh rant over.