I personally don't mind the dongle, I've been in places that practically run on dodgy software, it makes me quite angry as I am involved in software development myself. However I live in the UK, if I'm working on a project and my dongle is lost or damaged, I'm really stuffed, by the time I get a replacement it'll be too late, I hate taking it anywhere . . .
What I would like is the availability of a second dongle, one for home/emergencies, one for travel, as I am one of the people that buys his software I don't have the money for 2 copies of it! Perhaps the hardware at cost and a small fee for a second license. Although as I type this I can see the problem with this due to it amounting to 2 copies. Perhaps a second dongle with a 'time out' feature to cover delivery times of a replacement?
There must be some clever backup that you smart people can think of!
You definitely need a trial version, I wouldn't buy anything unless I tried it first...