The more I do with the new UI the better I like it. Finding things was the worst part at first and I do miss my old set up on the tools menu but am getting accustomed to bring up the pie menus and and such. And the changes to some of the hot keys didn't bother me that much as my most common ones still all appeared to be the same "almost". And I agree it will coax a lot to probably give it another try, as well as some conversions from other software. My 3 year licence on Maya (student) ends soon so that will be gone when that happens as I don't see the need to keep it. So more time to spend with Blender. Which in my view the more time spent with it the more understanding of it you have.

Incantrix