Hard for me to say but I don't do what you dealing with 3D products. I am on more of aerial photography and GIS side so I'd say most of my project with this software DOES a really good job !!
It takes a lot of hard work to put into and learning curve on this software. I would give them the 5 stars of 5.
For me, when I read your message here , I would always suggest make a backup of your work if things goes wrong. You can always go back to the previous one.
And for the new beginners I can understand how frustrated you are and I was like that before but I didn't give it up and put my skills to use it... I love it this software...
I would not trade for any other software because if this software had not been out , I would be stuck dealing with ERDAS doing the similar work...
Just sayin' and keep learning !!!
Honestly I also wouldn't trade this software with anyone else.
I have been using it since 2014 and have seen it grow and improve version after version.
I do not work in the field of aerial photography or GIS (I would love to learn this too) but I collaborate with companies and museums for the reconstruction of objects in 3D both for the conservation of cultural heritage and for advertising (statues, monuments, ancient finds, but also common objects such as shoes, etc. etc.).
This post was not meant to be a destructive criticism.
My post was just to bring to light the problems I am experiencing regarding my work and to understand if the problem I encountered was only mine and also bring it to the attention of the Agisoft Team to give it feedback, from who use Metashape, to improve.
In this case it is not a question of improving the learning curve (I am not a beginner), here we speak that version 1.7.1 has problems and does not reconstruct parts of an object that instead in previous versions of the software are quietly reconstructed.
Andrea