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.

Blender does not crash under heavy loads or upon adding effects unlike other free editors such as Kdenlive or Pitivi.

Blender provides a full rigging system and automates animation by interpolating between keyframe positions.

Blender is licensed under the GPL.

Blender's node-based compositor has comprehensive video sequencing and post-processing features.

There's a huge community to help you get started immediately.

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.

You don't have to switch between software when you want to do different things. Because modeling, sculpting, composting, video editing etc can all be done in blender.

Releases are made every ~3 months.

You can get newest version from Steam or Microsoft Store. You don't have to visit the website for updates

Support lots of modern 3D formats including DAE and FBX - ideal for game developers.

Good keyboard shortcuts for everything. Keep your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand on the mouse.

Although blenders 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance painter, z brush, or mari; it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.

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.

Blender embeds Python 3, which can be used to write add-ons, tools, extend the interface, rig characters and automate tasks.