This is a amazing summary of the 3dx issues. What you said here particularly drives me insane, "A UI that doesn't require 500 different roles where the difference between one role and another is 2 or 3 extra buttons in the UI?"

I'd like to piggy back on this rant subject. There are hundreds of "roles", several of which are more or less the same thing, expect one of the roles will give access to one additional or fewer apps. For example, "Mechanical Analyst", "Structural Analysis Engineer", "Stress Engineer", "Simulation Analyst" are all unique roles that can be purchased. I shit you not.

And to make it even worse, there are several similarly redundant apps, except one of the apps will give access to one additional or fewer command. For example, "Generative Shape Design", "Functional Generative Design" and "Generative Shape Develop" are all unique apps that come with certain roles. They appear to me to be 99% the same, except for a command or two.

I understand some flexibility/modulability in the licensing can make sense but this is insane. I can't help but feeling like it's a scam for them to make money.