I have a lot of respect for Inkscape (the fact of its existence and ongoing development). I used it to make the main logo/home link on my personal site and for

I have a lot of respect for Inkscape (the fact of its existence and ongoing development). I used it to make the main logo/home link on my personal site and for some freelance work, partly because I wanted to see how it had progressed, partly because I was between jobs and found it unreasonable to budget a commercial tool license. I’ll be … gentle in my criticism but, I found Inkscape hard to use. I eventually found my way to do what I needed to do. But it was like relearning Adobe tools with subtly different confusions almost every step of the way. If I recall, it’s structurally very close to 1:1 with the SVG output. Which might be what users want! It might even produce better SVGs. But I found myself thinking “can I bail out to the text editor like I’m using an HTML WYSIWYG?” fairly often. I’m sure if I used it more and got more familiar I’d know or develop instincts for where to look for … everything. But if Inkscape devs are here and want (I promise, this is intended as constructive) feedback, the learning curve was pretty steep for me.