Yeah, it always seems to come back to Blender unfortunately. Although I’m sure a lot has happened since I last used 3ds max and it’s probably more complex now, but still. I had none of these extreme frustrations while using 3ds max. I could follow a tutorial and then create something else using the same methods myself. With Blender, I’m so far extremely frustrated/agitated through the tutorial and I wouldn’t really be able to remember the steps afterwards because the UI does not make sense to me.
I just don’t know. Although it’s early days yet, I just feel I need to put in a somewhat high minimum amount of weekly time with Blender to get somewhere or else I’ll just be threading water. But maybe there’s really no other viable alternative.