I'm finding the shots, hold and stops extremely frustrating too. I don't want to learn to edit code and text files. I just want this thing to do what it's supposed to do!
On some styles it's not bad, but on others, it misses out instruments, plays one part really loud, or there's no drums in the stops at all. I had a very early version of BB, before it had any of that, then when they added it, I thought it was ok, but not great. I switched to Mac after that and didn't have BB for a few years. I recently bought the Audiophile hard drive, with all it's bells and whistles, only to find that PG Music have STILL not fixed this issue.
It basically mean that I'm back to my original method of generating guitars and other instruments, and then programming the drums and bass in EZ Drummer and EZ Bass. It would be so nice if, after all this time and money wasted, PG Music would finally address this issue. BB is an incredible piece of work, but this simple issue renders it useless to me in terms of just writing a track I can use without loads of messing around.