Comment by kstenerud

The problem with Inkscape, as well as other open source gui apps, is that there's nobody to lead a holistic UX QA process, and so they're full of enough bugs, edge cases, and general UX fail, that it's a chore to use the app, and you're constantly worried that you'll hit something big enough that you can't complete your work. I've had this happen often enough with libreoffice that I've stopped using it.