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>>641388
>WHY ARE YOU CLICKING ON THINGS IN THE MENU RATHER THAN USING THE RADIAL PIE MENU YOU DOUBLE, TRIPLE DECKER CHEESE BURGER
Ok, I'm not that guy, and I used blender for quite a while before switching over to maya for good recently, and I gotta say, it's opinions like these that really set blender back, in my humble opinion.

Hotkeys are fine, and I enjoy the fact that I can rebind everything under the sun if I'm using blender, but the job of a menu is to cleanly guide someone to an option they might not know about / know the hotkey for, and blender's UI simply does not do that job well. Hotkeys are all well and good, but how many people do you think would use my super k00l 3d program if all it came with was a long list of commands and their respective hotkeys, and no menus or UI to speak of?

Maya's UI has a lot wrong with it as well, but it's just better at communicating with the user, and you must understand that the pie menu is still hidden under an addon, so many new people won't really even know of it in the first place.

In short, I switched to maya because I simply do not believe in open source, free programs. I believe blender would be much MUCH better if they charged (maybe 100$ or 30$ with each update costing the same), and got together an actual company with actual leadership and direction. Open source, community driven software is a beautiful dream and all, but the more I grow up, the less I like free stuff, because "free" is just not a reliable business model, and passion only goes so far, when we're talking about massive software suits whose design needs to be consistent and under a single view.

Tl;dr: communism is bad, mkay?