If you asked me, Blender is just insanely good at marketing itself. When it comes to software, having good marketing and sales is always more important than the

If you asked me, Blender is just insanely good at marketing itself. When it comes to software, having good marketing and sales is always more important than the quality of the product. The Blender team knows this and is very aggressive when it comes to keeping their product in the news. This worked in their favor even in the early days when there still were a few other open source 3D tools that had a chance of growing up to become seriously useful. These projects were starved out by drawing attention away from them. Twenty years later, that space is dominated by Blender so forcefully that there is zero room for an alternative, even as an underdog.