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These 'what is the best.' - questions are always quite difficult to answer. The choice of a track planning tool finally depends on what features you woulkd like to have and how much you are willing to pay.
There are freebies, like XtrkCad or SCARM, which do a decent job. The free version of AnyRail has a limitation to 50 pieces of track. If you want more, you will have to buy the full license. There is WinTrack, which is a quite powerful tool, but not easy to learn. Kof 2000 Hack here. 3rdPlanitt us also not really cheap. There are others, which do not come to my mind right now. A word of advice: no software tool will do the design work for you.
That you still have to do, either in the back of your head or a piece of paper. Track planning tools provide the sanity check, if everything will come together they way you envision it. They also help to visualize your ideas properly, especially with a 3D feature. A second word of warning: none of the tools are really plug&play. All of them have a learning curve. How quickly you will be able to draw nice track plans depends on your own ability to understand these systems.
My personal hoice would be a freebie. Gigasauraus: I use 3rdPlanIt. Many people will say it is expensive. I will say it is good value. I can't speak to other programs. One of the essential tests of track planning software is its accuracy.
I have tested 3rdPlanIt to see if things actually fit the way the plan says they will. In fact, there is a little leeway in how things like turnouts will fit together. I have not tested it using EZTrack. There is a learning curve but I predict that your son will not find that a problem given that half his life is likely involved in computers. Bottom line is that I have yet to find a glitch in the program. I've used 3rdPlanIt since it's initial release. I used an earlier version of CADRail before that.