They don't tell me which DAWS to like at school, they teach you all of them and give you the choice..Its not that you cant do just about anything in reason. Its that if you're using Pro Tools right and taking advantage of all the shortcuts it completely eliminates this 'workflow' issue everyone has. Its just that no one is interested in memorizing all the shortcuts, let alone learning the daw.
I hate the term industry standard, it couldn't have less to do with why I like it. And it certainly isn't because they are teaching me it in school. Like I've said more than once before. I was as biased about learning Pro Tools as you are going into it. Reason and Ableton had their chance, Pro Tools won. School had nothing to do with that. Pro Tools did. Even right out of the package Ableton and Reason look like you pulled them from the bottom of a box of cereal. And thats just a cosmetic issue, not to say are fisher price daws, they just look like it. Its a problem right from the start for me.
Ive also heard reason be referred to as a drag n drop DAW over Pro Tools. On that note I cant think of anything that I can do in Reason that I cant do in Pro Tools by dragging and dropping OR substituting the drag and drop for a 1 click multi key shortcut. Automation is (which most don't know about) all one click in pro tools. Complicated shortcuts involving like 3-4 keys at once throughout the whole process but they're easy to remember. Pro Tools is all about the learning curve. Obviously there are exceptions like deranged but I'm convinced if you actually know the daws
AND shortcuts(always 3+ ways to do the same thing in pro tools) its hard to not go with Pro Tools.
Have more and more people everyday in class who have used ableton their whole life switching over to Pro Tools. Its not all new people in class, there are tons of experienced opinions being thrown around everyday.