I don't like the way Maya is becoming Autodeskized. The Maya menu's pretty much stayed the same from 1.0 to 7.0, streamlined and efficient. 8.5 has broken them up and makes the UI feel a lot clunkier. The help files were always the best in the business, but the new ones feel like they were probably written by the same guy who codes the software, and not by an end user. If you get a programmer with poor social skills their help files are a reflection of this. And why did they drop Shockwave? 3D Studio still supports it, but not Maya??