MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
Kinda. But no. Without a single mod installed, Foundry is by far offers the best battlemap prep experience of any VTT I've tried, and I've put a lot of hours in to all the major VTTs and many of the less popular ones. Next, it depends on the game system. Pathfinder 2e and WFRP4e offer very well designed game systems that allow you to do a lot without any mods.Cheap is relative and lots of folks don't like subscriptions. But I do like that the option exists.
So I get that it doesn't have to be hard to use. I don't think any VTT really is if you stick to the basics. But is that what Foundry is good at? Competing with Owlbear? No, it shines when you are willing to invest time in all the modules and community add-ons, or so it seems most people in this thread have said.
I just got fed up with the D&D 5e game system for found and ended using D&D beyond for character sheets and running combats and using foundry for the battlemap and moving tokens around and for the journals.