Or, to make a directly relevant parallel, the adoption of Blender. It used to be a niche open source tool whereas any self respecting professional used Maya or 3DS Max, and Adobe products. Now it ate the entire visual effects and video game industries.
Blender provides much of the value of its competitors. A purely CAD tool does not. You have to solve the other problems primarily, while also having CAD. Otherwise, it's like having a text editor when no programming languages exist. What is your business going to do with that?
I think you’re fighting a straw man? There needs to be an open-source integrated CAD/CAM environment, like Fusion 360 is. That's what the OP in this subthread is asking for.
