Please describe how you "outgrew" your initial camera?

I knew a great deal about cameras, did research about what I was purchasing, even knowing what I know now, would probably still have made the same decision, but requested the better lens. I forgot to mention that I purchased the camera and "kit" the day of a camera expo at a major camera store. I actually spent some time with a Nikon representative looking at my older Nikon lenses and the newer cameras. His comment was that unless I was going for a $3k+ full sensor camera, I might as well go entry level. He said the lenses were good in the kit and NEVBER explained the lack of VR in the longer zoom. I did not understand the VR which is the thing I am complaining about now, until reading about it here. I never even heard of UH until recently, don't even remember how I found the site.

I just looked to see if I could tease out the VR information from the Nikon or other sites, it is not directly explained in any literature that is available to the consumer. True, if you look closely at the photo of the lens you see the smaller says VR while the longer doesn't, but you would have to be actually looking for that specifically!

Perhaps caveat emptor is not a correct subject for this forum, and I apologize.

In reading the discussion regarding vibration controls I was confused by the discussion. I bought a Nikon D3400 kit which included 2 zoom lenses. After the discussion here, I happened to look at the 2 lenses and found that the shorter one, 18-55 mm included VR but the longer one 70-300mm did not. I was curious about this and contacted Nikon to see if that was the way they offered the kit. Nikon then responded to me by explaining that the VR version of that lens was $50 more than the non-VR and the package was intended to be as inexpensive as possible, and that my local store could have sold me the VR lens for $50 more. The store never mentioned that to me. Further, in searching the internet, I find no one offering the VR version of that lens for $50 more. Anyone know if Nikon was just trying to place the blame on the local store?

So far, only once did I have difficulty with the blurring on the longer zoom, it was dusk and I grabbed the camera to shoot a photo of a hawk and didn't have my monopod or tripod with me. I could have used auto ISO to shoot faster, but I prefer shooting at low ISO for better resolution, I am a hold over from film in which I preferred lower ASA for better quality, and find that although grain at higher ASA on film didn't ever bother me, noise at high ISOs does. I now carry a monopod with me to use with the longer lens.