If you think about how fiction becomes fact of you hear it often enough this isn't shocking. Once Steve in Wichita says "Pro Tools is way too complicated and it takes a long time to learn how to use it", suddenly Bob in Omaha. who has never seen Pro Tools, agrees, and tells his local pals "Oh man Pro Tools is RIDICULOUS to use! That's why I stay with Whatzahoozits DAW for al my mixing." And that spreads exponentially.

And the more Avid (See what I did there?) the fan base is, the faster the rumors spread.

Bottom line: use what you like, and shut up. Your opinion only has value to you. And the weak minded and lazy who follow the sheep rather than expending the energy to learn for themselves. I have watched this for years, both in real life and on these forums, how people continue to praise Reaper, largely because it's free. That also feeds into the "richest corpse in the graveyard" mentality.

I really just don't like people.