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It's definitely flatter. But I feel that the modelling techniques you need for successfully using these tools are no less rigorous than the design techniques you need to make 3D CAD work. They are just different.

I grappled with this idea of the stack/tree hiding complexity in FreeCAD but I've come to understand that once you get more confident thinking about design, it is more or less obvious where a given driving constraint should be derived from.

FreeCAD's expressions are no more complex than CadQuery paths, and they are certainly more expressive than OpenSCAD variables.

I would never diss the sheer coder-accessibility of OpenSCAD, which helped change my brain for the better, but GUI CAD models real-world thinking in often a very accessible way.