Hello OSTexo.

I agree with almost everything you said.

@You : "...I get the indication that McNeel has put themselves in a tough spot with Rhino v6..."

That's the way I feel too.
But I think that McNeel is doing this choice because many of their professional customers are engaged into the world of "generative modelling", and we must say that now the Grasshopper module has a much better integration within the whole Rhino environment and can now leverage on the new V6 Rhino Api that is really really powerful.

I think that now Rhino is becoming more and more a "2d/3d developing platform".

ITS UX IS TERRIBLE, NOT DOUBT, BUT NOW WHAT'S BEHIND IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE.

But it's even more for professional and not for hobbyist :)

In the right hands its "generative modelling" capabilities can do very impressive things.

I have a commercial version of Rhino V5, purchased some years ago but it was a wrong of me.
Some month later I purchased Moi and now I use Rhino 4-5% of times.
But when open it is only to use its Thea Render Plugin (excellent) and to access its Grasshopper module and run some public free "Grasshopper plugin" found around the web.
Or some times to run some command that really we are still missing in Moi : MatchSrf, "Cage Edit" and "G3 Blend".



About Blender, as I said, i think that its UX not so terrible. It has a great support for shortcut and you can find really impressive PlugIn almost for free.

Currently, because some month ago I purchased an iPad Pro 12.9 second generation, I'm engaged into this new "world" and I must say that I'm really impressed by how many iOS Apps for CG has a great, amazing UX. Minimalist and very powerful and with the Apple Pencil the UX is really good.
Still not perfect but the're on the right direction.
Procreate, "Affinity Photo", "Frax HD" (an amazing fractal generator, you can't believe what its developer were able to do with it), onShape (the excellent cloud parametric cad)

In these weeks I'm also experiencing the power and the wanderful UX of "Concepts", an amazing vector sketching App for iOS.
Actually the very best vector sketching software that you can find on a mobile device.

Ok...that's all for the moment :)

Ah.....I forgot...

Still talking about consumer CG software I must say that actually I'm very disappointed by what Nvidia is doing.
Last year I purchased a Gtx 1080 Ti and it's really a shame to see how Nvidia intentionally has decided to "degrade" the FP64 performance of this GPU.
Ok, is a commercial move, its their choice but 380-400Glops in FP64 given by the driver of the "1080 Ti" are ridiculous.
A "beast" like that could perform much much better than that.
Ok, its FP32 performance are AWESOME....11 TFlops !!!!
But when it comes to 3D rendering with software like Blender or other, a great powerful FP64 driver would've been a lot better.


That's all :)

Ciao!

Marco (mkdm)