Expensive is relative, right now a seat is about $800 with a full version of Vue 5 Infinite. That's pretty good considering it's a professionnal app. As far as the interface goes if you like picture icons you won't like LW, it's all text buttons, personnally I prefer those I don't feel like memorizing pictures, besides in LW everything has a keyboard shortcut. Everybody has different tastes when it comes to interfaces. I used to positively hate Kai Krause's interfaces.

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