Jeremy exactly my thoughts:
[Jeremy Garchow] ” It was a broad tool used to manipulate/playback video and not necessarily to edit. Fcp is present on almost every shoot I go on in some form or another and by many people who aren’t editors, but rather are in the production side of the business. This contributed to its overwhelming popularity, and accounts for all of those “users”. I’m not sure if Avid enjoys that kind of use.”
In the past it was always FCS in the design field and Avid in studios that most designers arent allowed to walk into.
Well that was my take on it when I first got into this.
All the Avid folks were elitist up here in Canada back in the day thanks to the CBC 😛