Software is big business and vast amounts of money is invested in development of functionality and user friendly interface. There are several packages available that fast and efficient can be applied to huge and complicated projects in their entirety. This is true of the engineering side of the projects.
However these packages are hugely expensive. They run on expensive "state of the art" workstations that quickly obsolete.
The question for customer is; “Do we really need a, can do all problems, software capability for the problem at hand?”.
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There are numerous alternative software tools that can do almost all out of the box. They further more provide possibility for customizing to suit the specific problem. You guessed it; they are slower and more clunky to work with. The longer time spent is insignificant because of the lower license fees. They also often have spent very little to to make output visually pleasing.
Software example
The commercial program Matlab was developed from a kernel developed in University environment, and is the can do all option. As an alternative the free program Octave has been developed. It uses the same syntax and for almost all engineering purposes the same capability.
Everyone wins
Operator(PBI) is paid the same, industry standard salary, regardless of software package used and get more hours; thus profit. Customer receives lower cost custom made product to specification. Very little money leaves the circle of necessary participants, for royalties and auxiliary costs. -Everyone is a winner.