Thank you for the refreshing opinion, Jason. I wanted to respond to some of your input here.
I hear you about learning where things are in Pro, and this is something that we hear a lot from other users as they begin to use Pro. From your positive attitude towards Pro, it sounds like you’ve left this hurdle far behind you, but I wanted to make sure that other users who find this resource are aware of the great ArcGIS Pro quick-start tutorials. There are 15 tutorials and many of them take only 10 or 20 minutes (that’s why they’re quick-start tutorials). These aren’t meant to teach you GIS; they’re meant to familiarize a user with the new (to them) application. So for those of us who have a lot of experience using ArcMap, and GIS professionals with many years of experience like yourself, these tutorials are a very effective way to quickly learn how to get around and be productive in ArcGIS Pro.
For those who want to dig deeper, there are 76 ArcGIS Pro tutorials, web courses, videos and seminars on https://www.esri.com/training/ and 11 lessons on http://learn.arcgis.com/en/ . Or if you prefer books, you could use Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro. You get the point - there are resources out there to help transition from using ArcMap as your desktop GIS to embracing ArcGIS Pro.
If there are things that you find clunky or ideas and functionality that you want to see in Pro, please check out the ArcGIS Ideas site. Look to see if somebody has already posted that Idea, vote it up and provide your story in the comments. If you can’t find it, submit a new idea!
We also hear a lot about the need for more data management functionality in Pro (Catalog). This is an area that is continually being developed with some notable changes coming in Pro 2.0. Every version sees new functionality so we continue to encourage you and the entire user community to communicate your challenges and needs so that we can address them.
We can expect to see a release of ArcMap 10.5.1 pretty soon, and then ArcMap 10.6 at the end of the year; however, ArcGIS Pro is the focus for new development efforts as it is the future of the ArcGIS Desktop product. Customer feedback continues to be a key driver of ArcGIS Pro software development. Therefore, we encourage you to continue commenting and posting your ideas as this helps us to build ArcGIS Pro to meet your needs and requirements.
Thanks again for your comments and we look forward to keeping the conversation going.