> In the last decade the enormous advances in the project lead to it being superficially unrecognizable, and it always reminds me more of Cubase than anything else.

As a very long-time Cubase user, how so?

The entire style and structure of the user interface; it has that look and feel of European audio software like Cubase or to a lesser degree Ableton.

Obviously Blender used to be famously quite different from that and basically all other commercial 3D software too. I appreciate that it didn't simply attempt to turn into a Maya/3DS clone.