CATIA

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with CATIA, 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

Icon-only commands and manual symbols were hard to learn and follow, a nightmare for users2026-01-05
Revamped interface has lower functional density and icons are harder to tell apart2024-03-23
Hundreds of unlabeled icons, even referenced unlabeled in the manual2024-01-09
Hard to use and support, though productive for experts2022-03-11
Data interoperability between Catia 4 and Catia 5 is a frustrating mess2022-03-11