Fusion 360’s free non-commercial plan is a much softer learning curve than Blender. It doesn’t handle nearly all the situations that Blender can, but if you’re designing products for eventual manufacture, it’s worth trying.
Because it's owned by Autodesk, I expect that Autodesk will eventually discontinue or reduce the free plan until it's unusable. Hasn't happened yet, though, and as long as one is not married to Fusion, I don't think it would be any harder to switch later (and maybe something else will exist by then).