One of the worst problems with upgrades is that things sometimes stop working. A particular nuisance is the execution plan that suddenly stops appearing, to be replaced by an alternative plan that is much less efficient.
Apart from the nuisance of the time spent trying to force the old plan to re-appear, plus the time spent working out a way of rewriting the query when you finally decide the old plan simply isn’t going to re-appear, there’s also the worry about WHY the old plan won’t appear. Is it some sort of bug, is it that some new optimizer feature has disabled some older optimizer feature, or is it that someone in the optimizer group realised that the old plan was capable of producing the wrong results in some circumstances … it’s that last possibility that I find most worrying.