None of the core keyboard shortcuts have changed in years. I'm pretty pragmatic about tools, everybody has a preference and outside of pipeline integration iss

None of the core keyboard shortcuts have changed in years. I'm pretty pragmatic about tools, everybody has a preference and outside of pipeline integration issues it's the speed and quality of the output that matters. For me, what's given blender the edge over the commercial software I've used (mostly Maya) is the keyboard-driven approach: I can rotate a cube 22 degrees in the x axis, scale it 15% and move it 3 units in the z axis in about 5 seconds without every reaching for the mouse. That's tremendously powerful and fast, and requires that I know only about 4 keyboard shortcuts. It's a bit of a learning curve (no moreso than learning, say a new programming syntax), but when you catch on, the speed and efficiency pays for itself in short order.