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I saw a post from someone building an AI agent that can analyse Primavera schedules, identify causes of delay, suggest recovery plans and help resolve out-of-sequence progress, dangling activities and redundant relationships.
It got me wondering why Oracle seems so slow to improve P6. It’s an industry standard for planning and scheduling, with a huge customer base, but so many everyday tasks still depend on Excel macros and third-party tools. Some workflows feel exactly the same as they did 15 years ago.
I’m not even asking for advanced AI like what nPlan and others are doing. Why don’t we have better built-in tools for out-of-sequence progress, dangling activities, redundant relationships, half-step analysis and basic delay analysis? Even routine schedule checks and reporting could be much easier.
With how quickly AI agents are developing, I would expect Oracle to have a clear advantage given its resources and user base. Yet using P6 still often feels like working with software from the early 2000s.
Is most of the development going into Primavera Cloud? Is there too little competition pushing them to improve P6, or are there technical reasons behind this?
For those who have been using it for years, am I missing something, or do you feel the same?

My wife and I both work full-time and have relatively high incomes. I earn about $500 more than she does biweekly, so our incomes are not dramatically different.

We are both originally from the Middle East. My wife believes that, as the husband, I should be financially responsible for the household and that she should not be expected to contribute her income.

During the first years of our marriage, while we were still back home, I made good money from a project. That money helped us immigrate, pay for two cars, cover relocation expenses, and support us until I found a job. A few months later, she also found a job.

At that point, we agreed that we would each put 50% of our paycheques into a joint account. The joint account would cover household expenses, while each of us would keep the other 50% in our personal accounts to use however we wanted.

We followed this arrangement for about 5–6 months.
Then, during the same month I was laid off, she stopped contributing without telling me.

When I asked her about it, she explained that she needed to send money to her family back home. She also brought up something I had said about money approximately two years earlier that had hurt her. I honestly hadn’t realized she was still carrying that hurt.

I wasn’t upset that she wanted to help her family. What hurt me was that our financial agreement changed without any discussion, particularly at a time when I had unexpectedly lost my income. I also struggled to understand why something I had said two years earlier, which I didn’t realize was still affecting her, was being brought into our financial arrangement at the exact time I needed her support.

We argued about it. She apologized for not telling me and said she had forgotten to communicate it, but she also told me that she ultimately doesn’t believe contributing financially to the household is her responsibility.

She then decided that she didn’t want to contribute because she was also preparing financially for a trip with our daughter to visit her parents.

I covered our expenses using my savings. Thankfully, after about two months, I found a better job and continued paying our household expenses.

When she returned, I tried to approach the issue differently. Instead of focusing only on who pays the bills, I wanted us to build a financial system together.

I opened investment and retirement accounts for her and explained ETFs, long-term investing, retirement savings, emergency funds, etc. I suggested having a joint savings account for emergencies and family travel.

My proposal was never that she should give me her money or lose her financial independence.

I actually wanted both of us to maintain personal chequing and investment accounts. The joint accounts would only be for shared expenses, emergencies, family goals, and savings.

I also made my own finances completely transparent to her. My paycheque goes into our joint account, and I shared my accounts with her.

Initially, she agreed with the plan. About two weeks later, however, she changed her mind and told me she wasn’t convinced and didn’t want to participate.

That’s where this has become much bigger than money for me.

I can afford our bills. This isn’t about trying to get access to her salary.

What bothers me is feeling that we aren’t functioning as a financial team. I don’t feel comfortable with a marriage where one person’s income is completely private to her and her parents and individually controlled while the other person’s income is expected to support the family, my father is almost 70 and still working and never asked me for money. I also struggle when financial agreements we’ve made together can change overnight.

Outside of this issue, I genuinely love her very much. I enjoy being with her and and We share household chores and co-parenting, and I consider her a very good person, honestly, one of the best people I have ever met.

I also recognize that our views about money may come from very different family backgrounds and environments, despite being from the same country. Interestingly, her mother worked full-time and is one of the most generous women I know, so I’m still trying to understand where my wife’s expectations around marriage and finances come from. My analysis is that her mother sacrifices didn’t get appreciated from her father.

We’re both educated, and I’ve tried to approach this as something we need to solve together rather than something I need to “win.” What has scared me most is what happened during our most recent conversation. When I insisted that we needed some kind of shared financial arrangement and suggested that we work together on whatever fears or past experiences might be influencing how we approach money, she brought up divorce. That genuinely shocked me.

I love my wife and want to save our marriage. But it has also made me question whether this is actually a disagreement about budgeting or whether we have fundamentally different expectations about marriage.

I want her to have financial security and independence. That’s why my proposal includes her own personal chequing, savings, and investment accounts. I’m only asking that we both contribute an agreed portion toward our shared life and that we are transparent enough to plan our future together.

For people who have dealt with something similar, Is it reasonable to expect two working spouses with similar incomes to contribute to shared household expenses while maintaining their own personal accounts?

1-Can two people with fundamentally different beliefs about financial responsibility make a marriage work?

2-How do you distinguish between a financial disagreement that can be resolved through counselling and a fundamental incompatibility in marriage values?

Again, I really love her and think she is a great person. I can accept this unusual flaw and still happily live with her forever. My bigger concern is how casually she can bring up divorce. It’s very hard to fully commit to a relationship when that commitment feels unilateral.