I don’t agree that dragging keeping wires is sane behavior.

Well… I’m afraid you’re wrong about that. It’s the behaviour almost all users expect, it’s the most useful behaviour, and it’s the behaviour of virtually all software that has wire-like interfaces.

Can you imagine if all the nodes in Blender disconnected every time you moved them? Ridiculous.

I would consider it still horribly broken if you have to use a special hotkey to get sane behaviour.

IIRC when you dragged a component in the schematic view all of the wires would get left behind. Have they fixed face-palms like that?

Have they ever fixed the usability issues? I tried it like 5 years ago and it was pretty terrible. Not as bad as gEDA or Eagle but still, worse than DesignSpark PCB for example, and the people that wrote that thought warping your mouse was a reasonable thing to do.

Eventually I found Horizon EDA which is basically the Kicad engine with a mostly fixed UX (it still has some quirks). But that’s pretty much a one man project so it would be nice if Kicad actually improved.

I’m going to try with an awful language so I can better criticise it in future.