Imo reason why is Maya considered as industry standars is some years ago it wasnt based on perpetual licenses…
I started with maya and now im working in blender… (2 months in both), blender is as powerful as maya. Maya has few things better over blender, but blender over maya too…
If you learn one or another,you won’t make bad decision, both softwares have almost same workflow, only just different UI, so switching to another software may take you 1-4 weeks learning UI and you are same productive as you was in previous software.
The question is probably if you can pay that horrible fees for maya… Im just using blender 1-2 hour/day so it perfectly suits for my needs.