UE Blueprints are pretty nice, and full on games are made with them. There are some perf downsides but for the most part its pretty sweet. Surprised this article didnt even once mention them.
The thing about 3d modeling and animation is that you should actually know a few tools. Most places ask you to have a portfolio with 3d projects. They almost never ask for specific applications. If you go to artstation.com and look at the tools modelers use they typically use a few at a time. Blender is insanely good for just modeling. you'll see lots of artist use blender just to model, then substance painter for materials then import into 3dsmax, cinema4d, or maya for the renderer.
A cool note I just learned recently is that game companies are using blender to make hard surface modeling easy. Like EA is using blender to make all the levels in the Deadspace remake and importing that into Frostbite(their game engine)
again you call the devs lazy. you really need to sit back and think about what you say. There is nothing more apparent to me that you have no idea what you're talking about when you say that. Obviously you've never worked on a large team or in development at all. Strava probably doesn't think its worth it, and has absolutely nothing to do with the development team.
> developers just seem completely lazy or incompetent
why? you really don't need to go down that road. Are you a developer yourself? because I'm sure you don't enjoy someone saying you're lazy because you haven't implemented a feature that some rando on the internet thinks you should. You must not be a developer because you can't possible think that this decision lands squarely on the shoulders of the dev team.
in both examples where you claim this doesn't work it worked for me. clicking on an empty space next to the form element and hitting tab focused correctly for me. Also tabbing then starting to type worked as well. I tested in FF and Chrome. Are you sure the options exist in the select box when you type? That would make it seem like type completion doesn't work. I Tried the checkbox and radio buttons example in FF and Chrome both auto select the field and using arrow keys to make options selected worked just like native. I think the error is somewhere between keyboard and chair.