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As a long time (27 years) user of AutoCAD, you are basically saying what I have said for most of that time. If I were taking up 3D now I'd most definitely use Sketchup, which as you say is very intuitive. I, however, user 3ds max for creating both models and from them, AutoCAD drawings and although it's expensive software to buy, it has all the bells and whistles I want and need, whereas Sketchup is lacking in quite a few areas. It's not so much the tools you use that's important but knowing how to use them and achieving mastery of them can often take a very long time. In the end and on the job, it's flat 2D drawings that the industry understands and constructs buildings from. 3D models/details are always open to interpretation and therein lies the problem of producing working drawings in 3D. I'd be very happy if everything was produced in 3D but I thinks that's probably still quite a way off.