[NathanKP]

As a Blender user myself I can say that it is very challenging to get started, but once you learn all the keyboard shortcuts things become very fast and easy to use. I feel that Blender gives me more control, even though learning it was rather hard.

[vog]

The same is true for many other tools like Mutt, Slrn, Emacs and Vim. It takes some time to get a feeling for them, but it's always worth the initial learning effort!