as someone who used maya for over 12 year i must say, Maya is really garbage. it used to be pretty amazing, like the king of all 3d softwares but it was many years ago like before maya 2009.
they stoped improving old tools which was the base and advantage of maya over other software and instead they tried to add some new tools which wasn’t really that good.
Maya is really SLOW and UI is really old. they did many improvement but it’s still really bad.
sadly i’m stuck to maya because of all those years of working and getting use to it but price of maya is too high and i really think about completely switching to another software.
i started working with blender and it is really amazing not only it has everything maya has but it has many advantages over Maya. e.g. cycles renderer.
if you want to work with a truly professional software i highly recommend Houdini . it has an indie version $199 . and it is up to date in every aspect you can think of.