stylnchris,
Hi. Welcome to AC. You haven't been around long, so you haven't been exposed to the infamous P2P to client/server (domain) that occur almost weekly for years. Trust me, I am with you on this.
I think for those who say it works fine on P2P in a workgroup on workstations speak from the fact that it "works." Some, back up one .enc backup to a flash drive, take it home and call it good.
I agree with you completely, not to mention performance, speed and the fact that people seem to forget they have other programs running such as SQL and Billing software.