I really like Blender, especially as a modeler. The only major downside is the nightmarish user interface, which doesn't seem like it's gotten better in this re

I really like Blender, especially as a modeler. The only major downside is the nightmarish user interface, which doesn't seem like it's gotten better in this release. They reverse most UI best practices, for example they had right click to select by default up until sometime last year. Their panel UI system is kludgey and painful. There's lots of hidden and non-obvious functionality. The benefits of Blender far outweigh the pain of learning the terrible UI though.