Try using HomePort and see if you think it's any easier than BaseCamp. I don't.

At first I thought it made sense for Garmin to use just one base program for all of it's maps & chart products.

But HomePort is fairly new. So if Garmin wanted to use one program... why come out with HomePort ?

Maybe I have been using MapSpurce too long and am used to it... but Basecamp is not user friendly to me.