Oh my goodness, CorelDraw is fantastic. It takes a bit of learning to get the best out of it, but it's full of tricks and shortcuts that make the job easier. I've been using it since v2. Version 4 was good, 5, 6, and 7 were bad, 8 was good but had some annoyances, I have no real experience of 9-11 having never loaded them on my own machines, 12 is the one I use now and it's brilliant, definitely the best ever. I haven't used or seen later versions.
What puts people off CorelDraw is that is isn't very intuitive. You have to put a bit of effort in.
Just for a laugh, I must tell you this. In the days of Win 3.0 I had CorelDraw loaded but the only text programme was the crappy thing that came with Windows. Since I had been forced by work to learn Corel I took to doing all my text documents on it! It was really hopelessly bad for this, but it was the best I had. I still have some mag article originals that I wrote in CorelDraw. And yer tell that to the young people of today and they don't believe you . . .
Bill