[shiroiushi]

This is exactly true, unfortunately: proprietary tooling that costs an absolute fortune, and has a UI straight out of the very worst of the 1980s, and only works on very select proprietary platforms, is absolutely the norm with hardware work.

[tarruda]

Why is that the case? Are there no good open source alternatives to these tools?

[eimrine]

Nobody except gigachad capitalists need that advanced PCB.