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The interface is the one thing that has kept me far away from Blender. Maya has many faults but, in the end, it has a UI philosophy that let's you reach escape velocity once you understand it. I have given Blender a chance many times, and every time, its interface makes my head hurt. It has improved, for sure, but still doesn't beat Maya in many ways. This is in now way a wish of poor luck to Blender as a project.

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This is the big problem with Blender. The interface lacks an artist's eye for what to prioritise and group, what to hide away in a menu with what and what to have out in the open for easy access. It's an incredible piece of software, but it has the steepest learning curve out of everything because of this. And 3D in general is the steepest learning curve of all without having to fight the gui.

ZBrush is similar at the opposite end of the spectrum, with it's own language and gui priorities, but at least it's entirely customisable.

Blender is COMPLETELY customizable. It's open source. Most of the time you can right click on something, and open the source code inside of Blender to update it to what you want. I don't normally do that as I make my own add ons instead.

Good for you, problem with that for me is I'm not a programer, I'm an artist and this is why Blender isn't used in studios.

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