'Hobby users of big, full-featured modelling applications typically work within a small subset of the full toolset'

I lamented to one of the top merchant/modelers here at Rendo that I feel like I'm only using 30% of what MAX had to offer - he said he thought he used only 20%. So that not only applies to hobby users but also to those of us who use the software commercially :)

If you were to go back even a couple of years ago you would have found that there were already a lot of different modeling apps around (as this thread has already verified). What has intrigued me about all of this is why software vendors and users would continue to keep looking for new modeling apps. When you consider all of the successive versions of the older apps, all the 3rd party documentation/tutorials, all the support forums, etc. - why this continued pursuit for a new modeling app?

I didn't want to come right out and say it but I wonder how much of this is generated by the quest for that mythical 'easy' 3D modeling app? :)