Adobe Creative Cloud user/license management

We've been looking at Adobe's current offerings and while their software management tools sound promising we can't afford them. They've told us that we need to purchase 250+ clients in order to get the full blown, most granular tool set for management. This was a few months ago, prior to the management tools shipping, and things may have changed since then. So I have a couple questions:

1.) Anyone have experience with management of the seats under the new tool set? Specifically with regard to, good/bad/nuetral experiences managing storage in the cloud, seats, software installs/upgrades and pricing under the new CC regime.

2.) Recommendation(s) for a smaller VFX house that doesn't have a need for 250+ seats nor budget for that license tier yet still wishes to meet its contractual agreements with studios on security while using the newer Adobe software?

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere. I poked around but did not find a recent thread.