Just because most use it, it doesn’t mean it’s perfect. What alternatives are there really? Blender lacks in many aspects and Modo just recently started gaining more ground it seems.
I’m not saying it’s bad, but it shows that they know that they hardly have competition so they’re not really putting in the effort that could really improve it.
The fact that there are bugs that have been present for years through new releases shows that. The mirroring bug that inverts normals for example, it’s been around since at least 2012.
I keep hearing about features that “you shouldn’t use” because it’s broken. I think more is expected of a software this big and costly.
Also it shows that the UI was designed years ago, it’s incredibly old fashioned and clunky. We just got support for binding mouse buttons in 2013! That should have been around years ago, no one can say 3ds have a modern interface and customization.
The UV tools are rubbish compared to what really small companies and even random hobbyists making free softwares (Roadkill for example) have been able to do.
Now, I’ve been using 3ds for years and I think it’s really good, the best package out there right now as far as I’m concerned, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. You should be able to criticizes and see that stuff can be improved even though you like something, no one likes a fanboy.
I’m all for quickening up a workflow but I don’t see the necessity in being able to model inside of the game package, it takes like 10 sec at most to get a new version of your model exported and imported into the engine, you can even set UE to automatically update when it notice that there is a new version available of a file.
It will never have the capabilities of 3ds or maya, they would never start another software competing with their own. So either you’ll have some lacking, basic modeling features in the engine or have to purchase one of their current modeling softwares to unlock the editing capabilities. Either way, I don’t see why everything have to be done in the same software.