(preface: I love the comprehensiveness of this post, lots of stuff I've never heard of!)

I use openscad because its fast and easy, but I can feel its limitations.

I want to love CadQuery (cq-editor GUI), because I do a lot of Python work, but something is wonky with the renderer (projection? the edge of a box further from the screen is wider than the edge close to it! like they got the matrix inverted or something)

and something else is wonky with the camera controls compared to... every other 3D application.

I try it again every 6mo to see if it feels good yet, they're still working on it.

Nevertheless, i suspect when they get it right, it's a tool that will eventually be like turbocharging my workflow.