I have babylocks designers gallery embroidery works everyday and advanced which is embrilliance with all of the add on's plus online classes. I love it. It is very user friendly, lots of stuff you can do to a design without digitizing. I didn't bond with my pe design plus, but am thinking of upgrading to next in the future for digitizing as I took a small class on pe design next and it looks pretty easy for what was shown, but the embroidery works/embrilliance are designed more modern style so everything is visual and super easy to use. My advice is to demo several until you find one you bond with because I wish I had known that a year and half ago when I purchased my first embroidery machine.