I have to agree with Mastone on this one, no interface is perfect. I started out right here with maya 7. I couldnt say it better myself. I found softimage fell in love it with interface and all. But since autodesk owns it now we might see a down grade in quality. Im hoping thats not the case.

Ive been messing with houdini lately, and i must say im impressed, though i wish there render region tool actually worked for me