ZBrush

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with ZBrush, 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 8 complaints

Described as having backwards, non-intuitive UX and UI2025-03-27
Extremely unintuitive UI that users must struggle to figure out2022-04-21
Looks cluttered and confusing at first view, needing an overhaul2020-03-04
Its interface and workflow are esoteric, hard for newcomers to pick up2019-11-06
Interface is very unintuitive and follows a complicated logic hard to learn2019-05-01
Subtool concept baffles the user and it's unclear why editing is blocked2016-10-01
Legacy design makes dropping a tool onto the canvas painful to use2009-07-24
Hard to tell which buttons to avoid to keep from losing work2009-07-24