Well no. Max is obviously an old trusty man that holds pain of application error. To learn zBrush you need to be an alien and thats the fact based on everything including most basic UI and viewport controls (especially rotation not knowing there is a Z-lock what is a default for every other software). Somewhere on blender i realized that software and its user is kinda the same. Sketchup and houdini well they are self-explanatory, second one is famous with complexity, procedurality and requirement of programmer-like thinking. Only things i may be misteaken here is maya and lightwave, with maya this is just some emotional association, and with lightwave i even dont know what that software is about and listened a collegaue's suggestion