Vectric worked well for the one project I bought it for, but haven’t had occasion to use it since.
By essentially making Fusion 360 free, Autodesk makes it more difficult for any sort of competing software to be developed — it’s hard to compete with free offered by a large corporation — folks do it (witness Carbide Create Pro), but there’s less new software available now than in the past, and a number of small companies have bowed out.
For what it’s worth, at least unlike Dassault, Autodesk is on record as saying that the licensing for Fusion 360 won’t change.
For Carbide Create Pro, please see the other threads and check in w/ @robgrz, @edwardrford, and @Jorge
For my part, I’d rather work things up on my own and fully understand things, and not be limited by what some developer has chosen to develop (or not to develop):
(which is why I use TeX rather than Adobe InDesign or Quark XPress).