it's more about being the top team, even if our professor intends Formula Student to be a learning experience also I did bring this up to a team member and the problem is that our team prefers CFD/FEA work to be done in Ansys and as you may know, Ansys is one of the most draconian software programs to set up thanks to how they enforce software licensing also our team has Ansys licenses provided by sponsors, but those have only been used for personal computers my colleagues own I was not given an Ansys license, so I've installed a pirated version from 2019 that a colleague of mine gave me to try Ansys out