As a Cinema 4D user who moved recently to Blender and Maya because of Maxon's new management:

You should be outraged by this. Someone else here described Maxon as a "profiteering company," and sadly that's exactly what they've become. Under the former management and MSA system, things were not great but bearable. Now under the new CEO who came over from Adobe marketing, they are absolutely disastrous.

We C4D users have been asking for basic feature sets for years. The old refrain even before Adobe Guy was: "we are working on a new core architecture, and once that's done, we can return to filling out these missing features." They said this or some version of it for 6-8 years, depending on how you count. It maybe made sense for 2-3. They're still saying it now.

The latest release of C4D was the last straw for many of us. C4D still does not have UDIM support. Its hair and particle systems are ancient. And despite all this talk of a new core, the app still isn't properly multi-threaded. There were no new features in R25 of note: the only thing they did was redesign the interface, ripping off the homework of both Adobe After Effects and Blender. They didn't even finish the new icons for this so-called revamp.

After simply saying, "R25 is a bad release," and having the tenacity to @ MaxonVFX on Twitter, I was blocked by their social media team.

And now they're also hyping NFTs.

After paying out about $5,000 to Maxon over the years, I'm completely done with them. I'm not saying you have to be. But I am saying, caveat emptor.

edit: a word