Three movies and(or) a TV show.

They get revenue from the pre roll ad while you read the summary. Then they don’t have to pay the creator when you click away before watching.

Because solidworks is the gold standard in the space and is intuitive for millennials that grew up on computers. It mirrors other software that came before in terms of super basic stuff like how to draw a damn line. If you’re going to do a big swing and change the paradigm with a fundamentally better way, it better be really good for a really good reason.

All the others you listed are very similar to solidworks and no problem. FreeCAD decided sketching should be completely different. I can barely even draw a line and I don’t understand how that’s possible.

I’ve tried it for a few hours, but basic stuff seems incredibly needlessly difficult. After thousands of hours in Solidworks it’s just too painful.

I’m kind of a fan of government doing the right thing regardless of the (high) chance of someone else coming in and shitting all over it.