This has been a lot of what I’ve written about for the past 15 years, off and on. They wrecked their online forum, which is the reason this place exists. They’ve been trying to wreck the SW software since 2010, although they took some time to backpedal and rename things, and then roll out essentially the same plan. They’ve proved over and over again that they don’t understand the market, don’t understand the purpose of the software, and definitely don’t understand the customers. “They” being DS. I don’t even bother complaining about it, because I don’t hold out any delusion that it could be what it was at one point. I’ve mostly moved on to less contentious software or organizations.
If you want to read some history, go back and read the CatiaLite or V6 posts from 10+ years ago. That was before they actually implemented some of this stuff. Eventually there were enough complaints they relented, but the new plan was just the old plan with new names. So complaints you see today are about things that have actually happened vs things back then were just about things they had threatened.
You’ll never get this consolidated into one place, but if you want to see a huge density of examples and complaints, here’s a good thread to start: https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/does-anyone-actually-use-3dexperience-in-a-productive-manner/116/1
And then there’s always the blog…
https://dezignstuff.com/category/3dexperience/
https://dezignstuff.com/category/catialite/
https://dezignstuff.com/category/cloud/
https://dezignstuff.com/category/catiav6/
https://dezignstuff.com/category/wtf/
https://dezignstuff.com/category/v6/