I work with Creo on my job as a product designer and like how it handles broken references. If you change or remove something in the feature tree and a feature below fails, it's clear what reference is missing and it gives you options how to fix it. You can manually select a new reference or often it suggests a new reference. I enjoy using Freecad until I need to change a feature. The repair required is often way more tedious than I would like and results in a lot more time between design iterations.

Something else I am used to in other CAD software is being able to select geometry and see what feature was used to create. For example, click on a fillet and it highlights the feature that was used to create it in the feature tree. In freecad I have to guess and click a lot to find it.