Autodesk can just die at this point.

It's an anti-customer, anti-industry, anti-everyone succubus riding on tired legacy trash and incompetent court rulings that allow it (and other corporations) to steal from customers and creators of all kinds... even musicians.

It's Autodesk they would burn anything for more money.

Very emotional article. I keep seeing this trope but I wonder how people reconcile this: autodesk is enshittifying its product. Users are leaving. But also wall street likes it. But also Wall Street is this powerful institution that keeps making money.

How does all this add up? Is Wall Street so stupid to encourage all products to enshittify thereby leading to their own loss of investments?

20 years ago when I was in 3D graphics/rendering/gaming they were the absolute "must-have-tools" - is that still the case today?

Why does everyone seem to hate Autodesk?

I’m new to hardware stuff but have been putting in a lot of time in fusion 360. It seems to work well on Mac and Windows and it’s free for me just starting out.

I got a year subscription for $350, which was not a horrible price.

I will say it is very weird to me that there isn’t an open source program with all the features that Autodesk has.