It's good to see that Fritzing is still alive. I recall that there were plans to move it to a web platform that fizzled out, and the original application was un

It's good to see that Fritzing is still alive. I recall that there were plans to move it to a web platform that fizzled out, and the original application was unmaintained for a while. I'm a little surprised to see that the pay-to-download button is still there. While I understand that the maintainers would like to be compensated for their time, it's not a good way to grow (or maintain) a userbase. Fritzing gets hated on a lot, but it has its niche. A salty forum commenter described that it's not actually intended for noobs, but actually for more experienced electronics hobbyists who are writing tutorials for noobs and want to draw a breadboard layout. And for drawing breadboard layouts, it's not bad. The PCB layout portion is that bad - it's probably the worst PCB layout tool I've ever tried using, and I can't come up with any reason for its continued existence other than to get referral money from a board house. And yes, KiCAD is great, but this doesn't and shouldn't compete with it.