They're still worth the entry fee for now but I hear the rumblings of discontent from my professional friends about Autodesk and Adobe. In classic rent seeking

They're still worth the entry fee for now but I hear the rumblings of discontent from my professional friends about Autodesk and Adobe. In classic rent seeking fashion both these companies have strategically swallowed up many small to medium sized software companies whose products many other industries require to stay competitive. And again in classic rent seeking fashio n they've jacked up prices while coasting on quality. My architecture/residential friends tell me that Revit is a bloated mess. An EE at my work complains about the poor integration of Eagle and Fusion360 and the horrible subscription model with frequent downtime. My relative with a video game company curses the price he has to pay for Maya or 3DSM for his employees while praising Blender. These are conversations that I've and with people in the last month alone. Everyone is fed up of those two companies and I think that you under estimate how much they have tested on their laurels while competitors are soon to grow up around them. I couldn't be happier.