I used QGIS extensively in my dissertation research and I actually prefer it over ArcGIS. I found ArcGIS unintuitive and clunky, whereas it was much easier to f

I used QGIS extensively in my dissertation research and I actually prefer it over ArcGIS. I found ArcGIS unintuitive and clunky, whereas it was much easier to figure out things in QGIS. QGIS is not the greatest UI ever, but ArcGIS is miserable (for me anyway). Completely agree though, it would be really nice to have a proper QGIS interface library.