As someone who used/attempted to use Kicad in 2009 (it was introduced as 'another option' in my electrical engineering coursework alongside Eagle - long before

As someone who used/attempted to use Kicad in 2009 (it was introduced as 'another option' in my electrical engineering coursework alongside Eagle - long before the latter was acquired by Autodesk), it has received the Blender treatment. It has trivial all-in-one installers for most platforms, a decent standard library, solid documentation, very few bugs... it's as easy to use as Eagle today, which was not the case in 2009.