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Shouldn't surprise you that much. Spreadsheets and word processing haven't changed in decades either.

Solidworks might be as close to a final form for CAD as you're going to get.

don't worry, the one thing they did change was adding "the cloud" called 3DEXPERIENCE which is universally hated and gets more and more intrusively jammed into each new release.

oh and they changed the price as well, it went up, and up, and up

We had a sales person try to explain how file handling in 3DExperience is done. They were presenting how magic everything is where the right version of the file is always present in Catia for modelling, Abaqus for FEA, and whereever else in the package.

OK, how do we work with our CMM and CAM software? How do we send files to clients and vendors? crickets

Not confidence inspiring.

It's the same for all mission n critical software. Catia, Unix, Matlab, Maya, on and on. This is how you build a industrial base of people with decades of experience to design all these things. If the UI changed every year how would people get truly good at their work?