By “higher programmability”, I don’t mean just the attributes; you also have to think of the agents and other smart tools such as the smart adornments, OnAdds etc. Advanced scripting o the type we have in Tinderbox is not possible in these QDA apps. Saved searches, in combination with tags (codes) do help; but never as sophisticated as the tools in Tinderbox.
For me, the biggest hurdle with Atlas Ti is the license. It is extremely expensive, and totally evil because once you forget to export your data before your license expires, you are out of luck. And, most attractive part of QDA apps is the strong connection between primary documents (annotating and commenting on them) with the idea generating systems (such as tagging/coding, commenting and writing a memo).
[strikethrough is an edit by the forum moderator at request of OP. The need for correction is explained in posts 28 and 29 below.]
The biggest hurdle in Tinderbox is the big disconnect between primary sources (reading materials) and the tinderbox notes. It is a lot of work to try to annotate a pdf and try to convert the annotation into usable Tinderbox note.