No, I mean Houdini Indie. But I guess it’s $199 per year. 
I don’t see how Blender can feel like torture if you change the hotkeys/enable pie menus and so on. But rather than aiming to be easy to use for newbies Blender is built to be fast when you’re experienced and use hotkeys. I think most other 3d programs are like this too though. Instead of using default settings you have to mold Blender to fit yourself instead of trying to adapt to Blender.
The only software I tried that felt as nice was Modo, but it crashed way too much. Maybe it’s better now though. Still, I don’t like that Modo indie has a lot of restrictions. Houdini Indie is also nice but it’s completely different compared to other 3d software and I wouldn’t really recommend it for straight up poly modeling. It’s useful for doing procedural modeling though and you can use it with the free Houdini Engine in UE4.