Hey
Thanks for your honest reply. 
I’ll try and explain - what I see as the problem here as plainly and clearly as possible.
i’m a Blender user fo 12 years, maybe 13. I think I picked it up first in 2006. For years I was just a hobbyist, messing around with Blender and what not. Then in 2013, I decided to make it my job and become a full time 3D Artist as a career. For the last 5 years, I’ve been doing 3D Art as a full time profession.
I love Blender - it’s one of the best things thats happened to me in my life - literally! 
And i absolutely love Blenders User interface - 2.79 - and have developed a very solid workflow over the last 5 years for creating 3D Game Assets. I work in Blender every day, and use it between 4 and 14 hours every day. For me the User interface, is intuitive, fast, logical, clean, easy to use - does exactly what is intended.
After a few years of using Blender full time, I have completely forgotten about the UI. It’s become like my living room, I know where everytjing is, i know all the shortcuts. I feel completely at home with it.
So when I see some guy - in this case you Wiliam K - coming on the forum, and discouraging a newbie by telling him that Blenders UI is awful…
Then I just think to myself "Blah, Gee, Gah - does this guy really use Blenders UI? Do you really know it? Or did you just pick it up for 5 minutes - decide you didn’t like it and throw it away.
If you did fine - no problem - different tricks for different sticks.
But i love Blenders UI - really love it - so how is it that you and I can have such opposite opinions? After all, we are both humans right - with 2 eyes and 10 fingers.
What I don’t respect is people talking about something I love and enjoy everyday in a casual and derogatory way, like it’s a piece of throw away trash.
Do you understand how such Rhetoric looks from my point of view - as a long term Blender user, and someone who genuinely likes the UI?
I respect my fellow 3D Artists, and I respect your opinion.
But really what gives you the right to come along - and - no offence - spout your half ***** and discouraging opinion to a newbie who is learning Blender?
I think such talk is prejudiced, negative, and unproductive.
I think Blender’s UI is awesome and a lot of other people do too - so what really makes your negative opinion of Blenders UI more valid than my positive one?
Truth be told - nothing.
It’s just an opinion mate. Just a User Preference.
I personally dislike Maya and Max’s UI, and well everything about those softwares. But you don’t see my jumping up in every Maya / Max user thread going “OMFG you use Max / Maya - those programs have awful UIs” cos I think such talk is negative and counter productive to enjoyment and learning.
I don’t understand what gives some people the priviledge to go around being negative about something - they probably don’t know that well, and discouraging other learners from using it.
I think that’s negative behaviour. I don’t respect it. Sorry.
Regardless of which UI is better.
Just respect other people’s workflows dude.
And honestly, Blender being different from Max / Maya is not about the Blender Devs “Trying to be clever” its about them doing their best in the way they see it. And honestly, you don’t have the right to tell them that they are wrong about it.
Just because people do stuff different from you - does not mean they are wrong or bad - it just means they are different.
And no - they don’t have an obligation to do it “Your Way” because that’s what your used to. They have an oblgation to themselves to do it they way they want to.
As Blender Cookie says:
Create Yourt Own Way.