I had to use ArcGIS too, and while sometimes it performed well, when it didn't it was quite painful to have to deal with the local vendor to implement our features, and troubleshoot bugs in their software.
my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.
ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)
Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.
QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.
Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play well with 'Esri-isms'.
Esri does have some really nice enterprise components though; I haven't yet found a remotely user-friendly open-source equivalent to Workflow Manager Server or Data Interop., or an as-polished ArcGIS Portal yet, though I constantly keep a look out.
QField is getting better and better, too. I wish I knew C++ well enough to help develop it further.
Is the situation unchanged? (Maybe a good use for Opus would be to write a wrapper for the python tooling?)
Crazy to now see this piece of (free!) software that essentially runs circles around the software we pay heavily for.
That page is also down.
Even previous ones, listed on Google when searching "QGIS changelog" are all down. So it's a server error on their side most likely.
QGIS is incredibly powerful.
Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support
For CAD, I think that an strong open format would make things much more easy for FOSS CAD software. I can see this starting happening with BIM.
But somehow, Turnstile seems to think that traffic from a Linux phone == robot traffic.
Does it have quirks? Yes. Many. QGIS is an incredibly powerful tool, and it has caused me to swear at so many different pieces of it :D. Looking forward to checking out QGIS 4 and see what they've been cooking.