Working with factorytalk view, and panelbuilder 32, and panelbuilder 1400/1200, and Ignition, and Cmore, and Maple systems, and Omron, and any number of other HMI software.
Not a single one is the best at something.... but FTview is not as bad as people say. The constant griping about how so horrendous it is because it doesn't have *Whizbang32* function, or that it's too WYSIWYG, and there isn't enough background capability and functionality.
I feel like the people who make these complaints haven't done more than linking some tags to objects and wondering why they can't click and drag something and have the computer read their mind on what they want.
It's not the hardest to use, and it's not the easiest to use and has a lot more functionality than some other HMI software that people praise to the moon.
Whenever I hear these things I think back to the last time I used Sysmac Studio to build an NA HMI... I couldn't stand that software and the problems it had. Imagine if you will, you set an indicator to a tag and the tag defaults as DINT instead of BOOL and you don't notice it. well with the Sysmac Studio software it will cause a build problem and won't allow you to download the program to the HMI, and it won't even tell you where or what the problem is with. Of course with FTview you mess a tag up and it will just gray out with no information coming in, but it doesn't mess with you and prevent you from downloading it just because there's a problem with a tag. This is the kind of stuff people conveniently forget about when they say Rockwell sucks and they wish everything was Omron, or Auomation direct, or XYZ brand that isn't Rockwell.