I was raised on Dragon magazine's artwork. Artists known as Brom, Easley, Royo, Vallejo, have given much inspiration. The works of H.R. Giger blew my mind when I was first introduced. Early "Masters" have given me little more than a cheap representation of what I may see in everyday life.

This conversation along with the mentality, has grown quite old.

Either you like it or you don't, the end.

Often, a magazine cover will be more appealing than a Rembrandt. The medium is not what makes art, it may add to the WOW factor. If we are limited to using prehistoric methods in order to create what a society deems as art, society has grown quite pathetic.

Poser is a set of tools, much like like a box in which oils, brushes, and canvas is kept. Alone, it is nothing.
In regards to comparing it to other methods of CG art...

You spent how much on Maya, 3DSMAX?
That's an awfully large extension on your penis, eh?

Poser users need less than one tenth of such an extension to equal the same results in a still!

Chew on that!