> Anyone have experience working with their software? I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough. And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid ve

> Anyone have experience working with their software? I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough. And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid vendor lock-in. See recent story how opening old Adobe files will cause loss of colour info, unless you pay licensing fee to Pantone. I strongly encourage the same and to consider donating some part of saved funds to QGIS, possibly earmarked for something you want.