I think no one is complaining about James because no one is using him. It's the same old situation - the female figures get all the attention.

Actually, though, I did see one thread complaining about James. Schlabber started one. I think he's the one that noticed James' textures are awful. (They are supposedly fixing them.) He also complained that James does not bend well (no doubt because of the rigging issues), and that the included poses are terrible. Schlabber a posing expert. He's made widely acclaimed pose sets for years, for figures from Posette to Mike 3, so it's not that he's not used to the new figures.

The Poser rigging system is indeed archaic, and no Poser figure will pose perfectly using it. But there's always room for improvement. V3 and M3 were the first unimesh figures, and they have problems that DAZ fixed in later figures. For example, SP poses a lot better than V3, at least in her hip and abdomen area. Laura is much better than V3 in the arms and shoulders - so much so that some people are using V3's or SP's body morphs on her, and using her as their main adult figure. If Jessi had SP's butt and Laura's arms, she'd be awesome.