Is it better to hear the same praise by the same people over and over again?
There was no praise until you started your predictable anti-Blender UI rant.
I must be missing some unwritten forum rule that says it's a bannable offence to offer a contrary opinion or - gasp! - to engage in an actual discussion on a discussion thread.
You're not offering a contrary opinion, you're just offering the exact same opinion you churned out the last half a dozen times anyone tried to discuss Blender. Just repeating yourself over and over, while plugging your ears and refusing to hear anything contrary to your own opinion might fall under the heading of discussion for you, but I had higher hopes.
Can't we express opinions about software without getting emotional about it?
Bad assumption, I'm afraid. I'm entirely dispassionate about Blender. My opinion, for what it's worth, is entirely the same as yours. I'm just sick of seeing it repeated over and over with nothing new added. There's a new version, new features, I was actually hoping I might read some discussion about those.