...Andrew's proposal was shot down in flames at the last Blender conference.  Some of the negative feedback I read to his proposals from fellow members in the Blender community was incredibly caustic and insulting.  Some of the comments I read would make a longshoreman sound like a kid in Sunday school. These are people who consider themselves "professionals". 

I have been told that the reason longtime core members of the user community don't want such changes to the UI because they are afraid they would interfere with their workflow. Even the head of the Blender foundation came out and said it is not the foundation's interest to attract new users, but rather, to support those who have already been using the application for years.

...excuse me?

Makes it look more like some exclusive fraternal club than an open souce software community.

One member made it sound as if having to scale the sheer cliff that is the learning curve for Blender's UI, was akin to a of "rite of passage".

Don't expect any "radical" changes to Blender anytime soon.

Quote - > Quote - Blender used to be primarily a modelling application. Now it is trying to be more of a freeware version of 3DS which makes it all that more complex and cumbersome to learn as it's UI really doesn't look (or work) much different than it did back in the 4.4 days.

They're actually re-visiting the UI... Andrew Price has put forth some excellent suggestions on how to make Blender more accessible.

So, don't give up on Blender quite yet.

I invested in Silo way-back-when, not realising it was going to be abandonware. Too bad they make it Open Source, and maybe make a Linux version. Besides crashing a lot, it did have some good features.

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