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> My colleagues use Eagle and Kicad.  Often they cannot do things that I
> ask them to do, because the tool has lots of builtin heuristics that
> prevent it.  gaf and pcb are transparent, general, orthogonal and
> sufficiently low level.  What they lack is discoverability, especially
> pcb.  Orthogonality could improve a bit, again, mostly pcb.

Need is rather simple: gschem for a graphical representation, pcb for the graphics on the layers and a BOM.

Yes pcb would in particular need a more general approach to draw pins/pads/vias. In gschem I could draw whatever circuit I want without a problem although I might have problem with gnetlist backend.