Here's my rant:
- The library manager is a total mess, even worse than Eagle but not worse than DipTrace (nice software, but that shitty library manager makes it useless). Where's advanced taxonomy and tagging like when finding something in Octopart? That's the way to go, and "favorites" and "recent" tags too.
- I find the interface too frustrating to use, I was able to replicate a simple 741 exercise from class in "just" a few hours. It was difficult to move objects and place lines, the lack of back annotation made my n00b mistakes even more frustrating than it already is and made me insa e
- The software forces me to create a project to d something, this is crazy. Their replies are about change your workflow.
- Footprints and parta dont get embedded in the schematic and board files, this makes portability very difficult.
- Lack of interoperability makes things difficult.
They need to go the LibreOffice way:
- Get funds to make a foundation, electronic small/medium companies and education institutions could invest on it. While that would happens, some nice nerdy devs would provide improvements for more marginal stuff but no less interesting for certain people. You can try crowdfunding, a call for help in EDA sites and such.
- Do a massive code refactorization and analyze the code, just like LibreOffice and many projects did. This can improve development in many ways. I did read from many devs that there's lots of crappy code, specially the legacy one.
- Please develop one ISO standard format for all kind of electronics software. Even for stuff like Sigrok, circuits simulators and such. This needs one consortium and small EDA software companies could be part of it, "just" avoid any kind of negative attitude