Well, Finale and Sibelius are the top ones around and are serious competitors. The rest is just mediocre.

What is so nice about Finale is that it has a thing called Human Playback (HP). It will carefully check all the musical articulations and so on and attempt to make it sound human. It also uses a very good sound library called Garritan Personal Orchestra. This combination makes it very suitable for serious easy scorewriting of orchestral music that sounds decent out of the box.

Further tweaking would have to be done in audio software in my case, but since Finale doesn't even permit such a basic action as SYNCHRONIZATION of separate files when they're exported (which already takes lots of time)...... arrgh. Do you know how annoying and difficult it is -- not to mention TIME CONSUMING -- to fix this by hand?

Lots of Time + even MORE time --> GRRRRRR, death and pain to them! No, wait... what the hell am I saying? Isn't that just wrong? I mean.... pain, THEN death!