Altium Designer

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Altium Designer, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Retains a number of weird UI oddities despite added capability2024-02-16
Software is sluggish, hangs for 30+ seconds on restart, and gets slower over time2023-06-26
Autorouter leaves the board full of DRC errors including shorts2021-10-28
Latest version has poor discoverability and a cluttered, tangled UI2021-03-22
Software feels slow and clunky, hurting productivity for users2020-07-07