The great thing with blender is that it is forever expanding in a positive manner and there is no real limit to what you can do. It is also expandable with python plugins and the window setup can be totaly re-arranged to your needs wether it be modeling, texturing or animation and can also use poser files.

  I also have hexagon, bryce7pro and carrara7pro (and several others) and as yet I have not found anything in the other modellers that blender can't perform (though I too am still a new boy in the blender field "8 months").