OpenSCAD of course is not as powerful as other tools, but it has a lot of pros (depending on what you consider a pro):

- Free, unlike other tools such as Fusion or SolidWorks - Open Source, unlike other tools such as Tinkercad or OnShape - 100% based on a programming language: compared to others is like comparing plain HTML with HTML + JS - Parameterizable (as a consequence of being based on a programming language), makes it a lot easier to adjust the model in a second iteration - Lightweight (it runs ok in my 12 year old desktop) - It can be used in CLI to generate STL files, makes it easier to automate the model generation

But of course it has a lot of cons: - It isn't multithreaded, so, it doesn't matter if you have an 32-core CPU or a single core. It also doesn't matter if you have a GPU. So, there's no "best machine" for running it - You can't compute the size of a shape, unless you know a formula for it. It's specially bad if you are dealing with texts, as you can't predict their shapes unless you're using a monospace font - It has some bugs in visualization - Even though it's on active development (you can see that in their Git), its latest release was in 2021