Yes, both suffer from self-selection and also survivorship bias, however these steps further worsen that. It also depends what your goals as a project are - if

Yes, both suffer from self-selection and also survivorship bias, however these steps further worsen that. It also depends what your goals as a project are - if you just want to build better software for your existing power-users, then great. If you want to become the next blender, you need to understand why people are using Maya/3DS Max instead (or in this example, why some people try to migrate to FreeCAD and fall back to using AutoCAD). It looks like the author was following this as much as possible though - i.e. not just focussing on some workarounds that a power-user had and focussing on how users should be able to do things easily without a lot of knowledge. The worlds most-used applications lower their barrier to entry as much as possible.