I've used a dozen or so tools for drawing publishing-quality circuit schematics, including GUI tools like visio, libreoffice, xfig, xcircuit, and scripting tools like asymptote, metapost (makecirc), circuitikz. The last time i used xcircuit was in 2005 or so.
The general conclusion is that xcircuit is the better choice among the GUI tools in terms of graphic quality, but only scripting tools are satisfactory to me.

On the other hand, as soon as you need to work with other people, visio or libreoffice become the only viable choices.
I don't think I can convince a single one to use xcircuit, because most people don't see the subtle quality differences.
For those who cares about quality, they will pick the "best" tool (usually scripting tool), which is almost always different from your "best" tool.