Maya

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Maya, 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 9 complaints

Commenter couldn't make a textured sphere; program too complex and UI unfriendly2023-10-13
Commenter was annoyed by design flaws in Maya's user interface2022-05-22
Feels like fighting the software's built-in choices; can't do what the user wants freely2021-10-14
Python scripting in Maya is slow and the API is not Pythonic2021-06-03
Making Maya work with a trackpad requires obtuse configuration that messes with mouse usage2021-04-23
Opening the Hypershade crashes the entire application in Maya 20202021-04-23
Right-click context menu remains poorly designed and hard to use2020-08-03
3DS Max and Maya UI/UX is convoluted2018-12-25
Throws every tool on screen at once and uses up keys for actions people may not need2015-10-17