Attached Link: http://youtu.be/MrutbhglsMw

Autodesk still seems to promote it, DarkEdge. It's being used/taught in some training videos that they posted on their youtube channel. It's one of those things I guess that some folks will always do, like you said, to each his own.

I don't do a lot of straight modeling anymore if I can help it. It's mostly sculpt, topo, uv,texture, rig, morph.