You can't use momentum if you want to get work done today.

Blender's advancement has been an amazing thing to watch, and it is deserving of enormous praise. Today it is afaict a really legit option for learning 3d.

That doesn't mean that saying it was a bad idea to use it 13 years ago wasn't correct.

I'm a daily blender user, but I'm a daily modern blender user - the pace of development is rapid, but 13 years ago, you might very well have been painting yourself in a corner if you wanted to do 3d work in the games industry and learned it instead of maya or max

holds true for people, too.