It's weird ... if you asked me to provide evidence for it, I would struggle to find THE ONE major thing (or let's say 4 or 5) that did this for me, but what you described is exactly how I feel about Matlab and Mathworks. Perhaps it was just death by a thousand paper cuts?
Which is odd, because while Octave is effectively 99% the same language, I adore octave and hate matlab with a passion.
