Erm “we” the max crowd didn’t say anything, it’s the new users who struggle to learn it and are constantly jumping from one program to another and open threads to discuss which is better X or Z. (The same crowd that opens threads about which engine is better but can’t even echo a “hello world”. 
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I know Max needs some improvements but in the end if you don’t like or can’t wait for new updates go use Modo or something more ‘new’.
I liked the new updates in Modo, but in general Max can do all that (apart from that mesh blending). In the end though, a 3d modeling program has a limit. People used to model 15 years ago and produce the same quality as today, the problem is not the software…