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Eli5: How did AutoCAD become the industry standard for drafting when it is horrendously buggy and prone to crashing?

I’ve used a lot of post-2010 versions of AutoCAD over the years in a variety of offices and at home. It’s the buggiest program I’ve ever used by far. Even sometimes something simple like editing a text box makes the whole program crash to desktop. Looking around on the Autodesk website and other forums shows me this is well known about AutoCAD. How did it become the standard over other CAD programs despite this huge cost in productivity?
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I used the Autocad 13 version in the early 2000s at school. It does not matter how buggy it is if it is the only program available, or the program that managed to get into the school. It was one of the first digital drafting programs to gain any kind of success, and they cut a lot of price deals to get into schools meaning that they got firmly established before their competitors could. Once a school is dedicated to a program ecosystem it is not easy to switch, even if it is buggy. 

And while it was buggy for us, it was better than the other option which was drawing by hand.