BLDC and AC servos maintain full torque at stop too, and have about 2-3× the torque of a stepper of similar size.

Huh, this is true about BLDCs as well? I remember seeing in a video that BLDCs tend to have very poor torque output when stopped and especially when at low speeds (due to very low efficiency requiring too high currents for drivers to supply), whereas AC motors have a pretty much flat torque curve until they get fairly fast. I’d be interested to know if this is true.

I’m not sure about chamfer (I haven’t used it in my sketches) but fillet is definitely included in the Sketcher workbench.

Entirely fair! I think FreeCAD is still fine for hobbyists like myself though. It does take quite a bit of getting used to (I came from Fusion360 and Inventor first) since it operates somewhat differently, but it’s good that we have at least one option.

Hopefully it’ll see more development and become substantially more viable in the future.

This is a result of the topological naming problem. FreeCAD currently doesn’t handle this well at all. There’s been a lot of work on this front though - you can use realthunder’s fork which should be a lot better in this regard. Alternatively, you can avoid creating features directly on top of other features, and instead make planes and reference them exclusively.

This isn’t true? Fillets and chamfers are available in the PartDesign workbench.