All professional software sucks tbh. I only have to interact with AutoCAD every once and a while since we mostly use ArcGIS now (all 2D FTTH network design/permitting). It’s decent for that, and the LISP scripting is nice, but it also constantly crashes and they will fuck with you on licensing constantly.

ArcGIS Isn’t much better though. Only benefit is that the data can be pretty easily moved around between formats, but the layout engine is proprietary. They also have a scripting library written in Python (arcpy), but it literal trash. I’ve written like 20k lines of code just to make it moderately usable.

(Yes, there is regex indexing of lists in there, ESRI thought it would be cool to allow you to have many things with the same name and hide the real name in some underlying CIM data that will crash the process if you touch it because their backend C code is bugged)