I get were you are coming from, But this is not a subjective matter. It is a hard established factual mistake clearly made and later somewhat admitted by the blender lead decision makers themselves.
Max and Maya and before them Softimage, (hell even that monster ) all came first and established the rules and the basic navigation and control schemes, in doing so an entire generation (the same generation that created and established not only these tools but the industry itself) used these tools and made them the standard for all to follow.
In comes in Blender in early 2000’s, with the only opensource software to have the potential to really make a difference! Takes one good look at the established norm and decides to go full 180 against the tide for no reason I could think of other than autism, in doing so it alienates most established professionals to even consider it.
Come 2019 and they sort of finally realize that after nearly 20 years of serious development on the software that they now must consider improving navigation and UI in order to attract the established crowd! But now it is this big conundrum, because by trying to fix this one thing it runs to break another, hence alienate the established Blender crowd who are used to the current UI.
The future is yet to be seen. And this is coming from someone who hates with a passion Autodesk’s handling and acquisition of these great trio of software Godfathers (Max, Maya and Softimage)
The only reason Zbrush gets away with its clunky interface is by being a sculpting software as a primary function which limits its learning curve to one thing only. It is manageable, coming from Mudbox it took me a few days to get used to doing that one required aspect of the process to a level were it became second nature. Not a deal breaker but then again Zbrush is another software designed by autistic developers, it was never meant to be a 3d sculpting tool either, it started off as some weird 2d splash gadget that looked like a freeware from the late 90’s:
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