It’s getting better, but is still a little less intuitive than it could be. I think the big sticking point for a lot of folks with using Kicad is the library management. Kicad is great and I am looking forward to seeing what they add to it next, but it is not without its shortcomings either - as any software is. That just means that you are constantly wading through menus trying to get to what you actually want whereas in Kicad there is simply a more concise set of functionality and it is easier to find and therefore use - at least in my opinion. It’s fine and works well, but honestly I feel like it is a little bit like using Visual Studio to write software in that it tries to be everything you could ever want when in reality you will only use 20% of that functionality normally. Our shop uses mainly EasyPC, and the reason for that is simply because the senior engineer they hired has used it exclusively, so they just went with that.
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