I fell in love with carrara practically the minute I opened it. I've always struggled a bit with the UI of apps but with carrara is seemed to be teaching me to use it just using it.

I tried C4D and knew the UI was going to be a bit of a struggle. Maya, well I opened the demo, looked at the UI, closed it and uninstalled it. Same with houdini, and you know my stories about Blender. Lightwave wasn't bad, but the demo kept glitching on me so I steered clear.

Thing is, and as has been said, this is a hobby for me. Sure if I had the tallent an ambition to go pro I would probably step up to C4D. But would there be a need to step up if everything in carrara worked as it should?

I mean carrara has a lot of prolike features, it's just they ether don't work as well as we'd like or don't do what we expect. Carrara could go a long way just with some intence bug hunting, and updating/tweaking of the existing features.