How do you manage your trees? Myself, I use webtrees. The interface may be a bit “old” and the handling of media in particular could have been better, but it’s an online solution (so I have my tree available all the time), it’s open source, it’s 100% standards compliant, and the community is wonderful, so … What is your favourite programme?
I always have Gramps installed on my laptop, and occasionally I import my ged-file, either just to see how Gramps has evolved, or because of some specific task that it does better than webtrees – mostly exports, coming to think of it.
Locations is a gedcom-inherent problem. It is partly solved in webtrees through a plugin which allows one to have a geolocation with several different names, countries, etc. Works quite well, I think.
Could be the case (the attitude/response I hate the most is when one points out a serious flaw or shortcoming, and some dev responds: “why don’t you do this instead?”), but on average I think most of them are nice. Go ahead and try!