**I hope that Dorico and Finale NEVER merge. I used Finale, but didn’t like it because when I typed lyrics, they went “all over the place”. I use Dorico Elements and I like it just the way it is.
Minna Mansky
Finale is on the way out. The recent news is that Finale users have been given a hefty discount to move to Dorico. There’s absolutely no way that Dorico users will be expected to interact with Finale now, or at any time in the future. (Unless they want to.)
And there is also no way Dorico will adopt all of Finale’s input methods. We’ve learned a great deal over the decades about what works, and Dorico’s design is demonstrably better.
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Finale’s design was fine for the late 80s/early 90s.
The issue is that it never evolved beyond that. Sibelius, MuseScore and others have improved over the years. Dorico is new and never really had to “improve,” they just didn’t handicap their product with a historical UI/UX in 2016.
Finale 27 still looks, functions and performs like an early 1990s Mac/Windows application. Functionality was never its issue. UI/UX and Performance was. But they kept trying to bolt on functionality when they really needed to do plumbing work to modernize the code base - which would ultimately have made it easier to add functionality.
A lack of evolution was the problem, and I think coping on the Print Market didn’t do them any favors. Enterprise markets have a way of stalling product evolution, as those customers tend to have high friction to any change that could prove disruptive in any way.
Avid has this same issue with Media Composer and Pro Tools, and it shows up to some extend even downmarket in the professional market.
Look at all the hoopla about the Cubase UI changes for v13, Lol.
Legacy and current users have a way of vetoing product evolution out of viability for the people who will come into the market [years later] 
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