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Pros
Pro Has a powerful rendering engine
Blender runs the Cycles path tracing engine under the hood. Cycles is a very powerful rendering engine capable of full path tracing (light fall off, caustics, volumetrics). It is mostly compatible with OpenCL and CUDA rendering, and is implementing mycropolygon displacement features. The upcoming release has a viewport engine called EEVEE whereby you can see and interact with your work in render mode in real time!
Pro Sculpting and 3D painting features
Although Blender's 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance Painter, ZBrush, or Mari, it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.
Pro Very useful for a freelancer
It offers a round solution (it covers many areas and professional fields) for a freelancer, for free, constantly updated, very polished, and allowing high quality results that clients do require. After some learning, it becomes very useful for professional work.
Cons
Con The physics engine is a bit lagging behind, especially the destruction physics
Con Difficult learning curve
Blender has a history of being unintuitive, but the 2.8 overhaul made the program far easier for beginners to pick up, and changes continue to be made to further improve the experience. However, there is still a learning curve.
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Flagged Pros + Cons
Pro The physics engine needs some work
For example, destruction physics is lagging behind a bit.
Out of Date Pros + Cons
Pro Includes a complete game engine
Blender has a complete game engine. It features node based scripting (called Node Editor), Python scripting, dynamic shadows, bullet physics, animated textures and more. Combine it with the ability to model, render bake and texture paint inside the same application and modify the source code because of it being free and open source, Blender becomes an excellent choice for making prototypes and even complete games in considerably low amount of time.
Con Poor viewport performance
In complex scenes, Blender's viewport shows considerable lag. Certain view modes exacerbate this.
Con Ugly interface
It has a not-so-good interface out-of-the-box. It's hard to see things on it.
Sure you can use custom themes, but themes that look good are not always up-to-date.
And building your own theme is confusing and time-consuming.
It's just my own opinion. If you have got a good theme, you can just ignore this.