Oh, come on ... stopping teasing us. Lay out your "GENERAL theory" for us. I need a good laugh now and then Cofee. ;)

But seriously, I use many, many software apps that do "complex" tasks. I can count the ones that are unreliable, buggy, and an insult to consumers in general on one hand: Poser, Lifeforms, Scala ... and Vue & Premiere to some extent.

The rest are rock solid -- may not have every feature I want in some cases, but are rock solid: Bryce, After Effects, 3DS Max, Mimic2, DeepPaint, Illustrator, Photoshop, PP10, ParticleIllusion, Vegas ... and the list goes on and on.

-Tim