No kidding...

I recently finished a survey of 15 musician friends, asking these two questions (independent of the window/mac platform):
1. Have you tried BIAB?
2. If you tried it, do you like it?
3. If you haven't tried it, why not?

Literally, in all 15 cases, the resposes were:
"Tried it, hate the interface. Would not use it"
"Checked it out, and couldn't figure it out"
"That program was obviously written by musicians, not programmers"
"That interface is terrible"

Well, my degree and 40 years of work experience is in Math and Engineering and I can tell you from a statistics point of view, that the bell-curve clearly suggests BIAB folks are loosing a ton of business.

Once upon a time, in the engineering design world, there was a powerful program that other programs couldn't touch but, the interface was Unix based and not user friendly at all. As GIU's developed, new competitive programs with user-friendly interfaces popped up and, eventually, after loosing market share, ProE, put a nice GUI front-end on their program. Unfortunately, they did not start from scratch but, built upon old legacy. You have only to go one to two menu levels deep before being back into the old interface. ProE is no longer in high demand and the cost of their software went from $30k down to $4k and struggling to stay alive.

BIAB has some really great aspects about it but, the program really is only as good as the weakest link.