What're some things to look forward to?

Tons. I use Logic primarily but clip view in Ableton is one of the best features in any DAW hands down

welcome to the party kid

the amazing built-in effects plugins (drum bus, distortion, reverb, vinyl effect etc.)

the arrangement system, being able to make an entire song sequentially via clips then simply drag everything to arrangement and polish it up in minutes

ease of recording/resampling

simpler, automatic sample slicing

ease of automation!

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Mane I can't wait! I had ableton back in 2011/12ish, It was an NFC playoff game: Giants vs Seahawks, I made a 2 pretty dope instrumentals so I'm lookin forward to it

this guy pretty much said it all right here.
ableton is the superior daw for beat making, it and pro tools is really all you need.

It's honestly really incredible for workflow. Having the mixing and creating taking place simultaneously without having to do any major switch or send is a godsend feature.

Sometimes I do complex s*** so easily and when I'm done I ask myself "is that it? It can't be this easy?". And sometimes it is. But that has it's upsides and it's downsides, I was so used to doing a lot to get to a certain level of quality and now that it comes so easily it's made me complacent, and I have to remind myself to keep pushing at a high level even though it's easier now.

You'll do yourself a big favor to start learning all the keyboard shortcuts early on, it'll be insane how you'll just start switching out stuff and adding stuff, and switching screens without even realizing what you're doing.

But yeah, it's so good, it has it's cons too, don't be fooled, but it really is so good.