ArcGIS

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with ArcGIS, 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 6 complaints

Applying symbology takes many steps and is very slow per layer2023-02-10
Buttons and information overload; workflows must be memorized to use it2022-07-23
Interface is a disaster, harder to use than QGIS2018-12-08
Commenter found ArcGIS unintuitive and clunky, hard to figure things out2018-09-19
Mouse wheel scrolls the map vertically instead of zooming, unlike expected behavior2017-07-07
Commenter repeatedly cites ArcGIS as a bad user experience2011-09-30