Never heard of the other stuff mentioned?
About 2005, after 10 years of using PSpice demo version (limited to 30 nets, but it was even too much for my needs) when I practically simulated all what I needed I got info about LTSpice. I tried it, but
I was lost in the fact that I had to write out some text commands in the schematic instead of setting the voltage/current source parameters after clicking on the source symbol and simply setting the simulation parameters in the dialog box opened from menu like I had it 'since always' in PSPICE. In the dialog box you see what you are setting while writing command you have to remember all symbols to be used.
Do in LTSpice you still have to write text commands at schematic?
I practically don't need Spice, but as KiCad (that I use to design PCB) have Spice in it (not very flexible yet, but each year better) than why not to have two tools with one schematic drawing interface...