The only negative feedback centered on the removal of certain legacy menu items (like the original “Split Polygon” tool), which muscle-memory veterans had to relearn.

The 2019.1 update introduced several quality-of-life improvements and efficiency tools designed for high-pressure production environments. 1. Refined Rendering & Lighting Workflows Maya 2019.1 brought significant updates to the Render Setup Light Editor

Autodesk Maya 2019.1 was a point update primarily focused on performance improvements

With Parallel Evaluation, Maya intelligently analyzes your scene’s dependency graph and identifies nodes that can be computed simultaneously across multiple CPU cores. For an animator, this translates to:

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For studios still on Maya 2018, this was the update that justified the upgrade.