Yes, blender has a much more approachable UI,and yes its nice there is help in general I guess ,for the ‘non programers’ amongst us <wink>.
One thing notable disgust for me,is the still slow viewport, thx to Houdini for alleviating that, very nicely. There are ways around it, slicing up mesh, hiding things yes, but I don’t need to do those things in Houdini, so for now Houdini is my GOTO .
If I recall right , they are still working on updating sluggish viewport, for most anything past or = to 300K (for me anyway and my system can handle most anything thrown at it ) ,and heck ya, Maya LT given very decent price, is incredible. Autodesk has incredible offerings, and in huge measure, thx to ‘MeshMixer’, I was able to work on a project related to my UE4 project, with literal ease and no slowdowns.