Modo's Group Selected Items exists in Blender, but it's different. You have to enable the Add Mesh: Extra Objects Add-on to get Parent to Empty to show up under the Add > Mesh submenu at the very bottom. Ctrl-G (Modo) does something else in Blender. I assigned this to the Shift-P hotkey, instead. Thanks to Lukas Stratmann…
Blender is very capable. I even feel for normal modeling task, Blender's viewport is much snappier and faster to work with. 1 thing I don't like however is how you need to assign different hotkeys to do the same thing for different components. For example, extrude is not just a single extrude; you have extrude vertex,…