I love Houdini and C4D too.
the messages received yesterday, under my personal point of view, it was not an error but has ben sent voluntary to inform all the community waiting for Blender 3 and juts sow the new C4dR25 that also they are coming with a new big release: SideFx is saying: "dear houdini people, we are arriving in one month with a new release and bla bla bla". And now a lot of people are in stuck waiting them. Has been a commercial action. But I not complaint about this, it is good.
In any case, I have some notes on Houdini
1) For me it is not an issue to use VEX after spending years developing in C but, please, VOP for me is a real mess. But we cannot imagine creating something using only code and when you put, for instance, a Pyro on an object it is not easy, for a beginner, to understand what happen. The Spehra pbject is modified with new nodes and other two object are addend on your table. Houdini is powerful but sometime, for me, could be simplify. I agree that also in C4D when you befin to include a lot of tags tags, instances, plane effector plus fileoff (why they continue to call it failoff and not field) ... so C4d too, in some case, it is not easy . In that case the node is more clear especially when you reopen a orpject afetr a while 😄
2) I never understood why some node in Houdini has so strange name: polyextrude, polyfill, poly bla bla bla, clip, just for instance. I think that with some user friendly names the product should be more easy to learn and use. Do you want to talk about polydraw? that when you use it the menu is referring to topobuild? a beginner goes in confusion
3) A lot of functions are the same but just with some different default parameters. attrbutewramgle and pointwramgls. Are the same, why two?
4) C4D is very stable where Houdini often crash .. o rbetter enter in "no responding" and you have to kiil it. Blender too sometime need to be kiil .... C4D is fantastic.
Unfortunaelly the last R25 version of C4d D it seems a commercial version of Blender 😄
