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> Respectfully that is a little condescending to the users. They may
> have come from xyz commercial suite and have bindings they like. We
> don't try to tell people which workflow to use. Likewise we should
> leave them to their key bindings. Our job is to make the tool great
> not to save people from themselves.

And likely that xyz company had a group of specialists choosing the
hotkeys to maximize performance.  My point wasn't "we should force
them to use our bindings" it was "we shouldn't expect them to know how
to set up bindings from scratch" and "we shouldn't expect the users to
have to learn new keybindings just because we changed our minds"

We haven't changed out keybindings because our users are used to them.
PCB did add a way to change the keybindings if you wanted different
ones, but we left the defaults alone.  If a user wants to fiddle, they
can fiddle.