I noped out of FreeCAD in the first minute after I downloaded it and tried it. I'll open it again right now and record my thoughts:
I open up FreeCAD and am immediately annoyed. A splash page takes multiple seconds on an M1 Pro, and then I'm dumped into a empty page with a mess of buttons around it.
Why are there browser UI elements and buttons for "set URL" and "open website"?
I click around and realize there are different "workbenches" which are different UIs for making different types of parts. The UI feels sluggish, and it's hard to tell whether a button is disabled or not. Clicking any button seems to take hundreds of milliseconds to respond.
I go into the Drawing workbench to attempt to make something. There are two buttons with identical iconography (a piece of paper with a shiny light on the top right). One means "new empty document" (what is a document?), and the other is... Open SVG (?)
Right now I am just attempting to draw a sketch or _something_ like that. I guess Drawing wasn't the right workbench. Moving to "part design" now.
Ahh, finally the combination of "create new document" and then "create body", then "create sketch", then "select workplane" _finally_ puts me in a view to start creating something. I am assaulted with what seems to be around 30 new buttons with unintuitive icons which I need to hover over to decipher their meaning (at least they have hovertext!)
The rendering window at this point is quite tiny compared to my screen, and it's rendering at what seems to be around 30 FPS on a 120 Hz display.
I saved my project to a file, and it dumps out some binary thing. Good luck with version control on that I guess.
I'll stop here, but overall FreeCAD just feels gross to use, and it needs a lot more than just tutorials to increase its usage.
Compare to SolveSpace, which loads instantly, puts you immediately into a mode where you can start creating, renders at my screen refresh rate, and doesn't overwhelm me with UI elements I don't need until I'm actually doing something related to them. I know SolveSpace has way less features compared to FreeCAD, and it also has its confusing moments as well, but it actually has decent taste in its UI and UX, and runs very responsively (as all applications should with the kinds of computers we have these days).