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Hey! That does sound like quite a difference. Some people sneer at Molinism and the futility of natural theology here. There are a couple underground Molinists, though. We've been reading various: "Nature and Scripture" (Infallible Word: A Symposium), Intro to Systematic Theology, and Defense of the Faith ... to name a few. How much longer you got there?
By the way, Bibleworks does NOT have Kohler-Baumgartner or BDAG. It has an abbreviated BDAG (put together by Gingrich or Danker or one of the BDAG guys), BDB and Holladay as well as a few other lexica, but you have to pay extra for the standard works (obviously BDB is a standard work, but an outdated one).
My opinion is that it's not worth it for these reasons:
1 - Commentaries are one resource that I desperately want to hold in my hands. I'd rather buy them piecemeal than have them only in a program on my computer. If I do get an e-book, I want it on my Kindle.
2 - The packages that actually have the resources that I would want are (as you said) so expensive that I can't justify the expense. Especially since you can get commentaries at great prices elsewhere. I quintupled my commentary collection for like $150 when a fellow seminarian decided to go into ministry instead of academic research. Seminary students often unload amazing amounts of books at ridiculous prices.
3 - Just considering the text itself, Bibleworks does so much so well that, for ministry, I can't imagine needing anything else.
4 - From the videos I've seen, Logos looks like a resource hog. Bibleworks seems very light to me.