Honnestly, it's mostly the UI revamp that put Blender up to big gun: a familiar interface mean that every artist trained on other software can "easily" transfer

Honnestly, it's mostly the UI revamp that put Blender up to big gun: a familiar interface mean that every artist trained on other software can "easily" transfer. Sculpting improvement, are, well, an open discussion. Poly modelling with subdiv is still better in Mirai, a software dead for nearly 20 year now for example, and lot of artist using nurbs still miss Softimage 3D 4.