When I ditched PC's I wanted to try something aside from Pro Tools, I was making demos in Garageband already, but when I downloaded Reaper I just looked at it like "WTF? Why is this so busy?" I'm not even sure I had it open long enough to figure out how to record a track. I closed it and bought Logic after seeing I was already using the Lite version of it with Garageband.
I love it, it stays out of my way and everything I've ever needed to do has been generally figured out without needing a tutorial and there's ample tutorials for anything I couldn't figure out. TBF, I basically use it like a tape machine/mixer with digital editing in that what I record is 75% performance and 25% VST's I'm editing in a piano roll....where I'll bounce the tracks to audio and treat them as such. Like my AxeFX, I underutilize a LOT of features.