Totally. The challenge was Kicad wasn't very usable early on, it's amazing now, but it wasn't really usable for a long while and the only name in town that wasn't thousands of Dollars was eagle. It was also the defacto standard for library and Footprint files, it defined its own little ecosystem. Now we have similar in kicad, but it will take years to amas the level of example boards out there in eagle.