I've worked with Eagle from very first edition 1.0 in the year of 1980. It steadily improved until version 4.16.
Thereafter only small improvements were made sacrificing other nice features like being able to select "Grid last". With the grid last feature you can switch between two grid sizes always calling for "last", enabling you to use half grid size (or any other selected) in the schematic editor as well as in the layout editor.
Setting junction dots automatically in a schematic is not a great advantage if you know what to do.
The autorouter's algorithms have not changed much over all those years, and it tends to "surround" itself. I use it only if I want to find a possible route of one left over trace for a single layer board.
Play a bit around with Eagle and you'll find it very useful.
125US$ for the non-profit version is as much as wasting money. The max board size will be 160X100mm, limited to two layers.
I paid 1,800€ for Eagle professional 3.55 capable of 16 layers, unrestricted sheet numbers in the schematic editor and 800X800mm maximum board size, of which I have used 420X320mm so far.
Boncuk