Hello mkdm,

I get the indication that McNeel has put themselves in a tough spot with Rhino v6. They are pushing Grasshopper but by doing so are asking users to perform operations in two different interfaces. Couple that with near zero advancement of its core interface results in a product that is not very usable.

It's easy to get lost in 3DCoat, the devs are asking users to remember where they've placed operations. Humans do not operate efficiently in that way.

NVIL has an overwhelming interface, the dev needs to put some thought into tool consolidation and organization. The good news for him is that he doesn't need to build out his toolset, he isn't feature starved.

Blender is the poster child for bad UX. It's almost as if they intentionally made UX decisions to make it unusable. Yes, it's that bad.

I'm glad Altair bought Solid Iris, I think they now have the experience and funding moving forward to really advance their UX with TR.

I haven't tried the Affinity or Vectary products so I can't rightly comment on the usability of the products.

Interesting discussion.