i dont like mayas snapping either....crap...but i can live with that...renderer is trash,but now it has mental ray :-)
no soft selection
te outliner is cool though
i dont like how maya selects all the children when u select the parent
max has a cool feature wherin it treats all heirarchy as a character/skeleton,dunno if maya has that...i have been using max for the past 4 years...now im switching to maya bec im heavy on the character animation/modelling side...btw...max'a uvw edit tools are the best that i have seen in the industry