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I buy a product or, more often than not nowadays, pay for a service for the features.

I keep using the product/service if it's stable. I have no use for a service with loads of nice features that don't work.

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Only that you only pay once for an OS, so by the time you realise many features are buggy, you can't just unpay.

I pay twice the price of the hardware to be able to use Mac OS X, which is stable. Except, since 10.10, it kernel-panics once a week. I'd pay 100-200€ per year for a good OS.

It's a very, very long shot, but could it be that you have virtualbox 4 installed?

With 10.10 and 10.11 I had the same issue, caused by the kext from virtualbox. Removing it and installing version 5 solved everything and haven't had a kernel panic since then.

If not virtualbox, I'd look at other kext you might have there.

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