SQL 2016 thoughts - 5 reasons to consider it

A couple of good reasons to use SQL 2016:

1. Temporal Tables - Use instead of Tomb tables/highlander tables.
2. Row Level Security - specify access to a row for users and groups
3. Always encrypted - encrypts data at rest on a column (don't confuse with column level encryption)
4. Read data from queries in JSON object format - nice
5. Performance - The jump to using SQL 2016 is massive.  I've even heard people recon double the performance on the same kit as SQL 2012.  Multiple Temp DB tables is a big part of this.  And ultimately the best reason.