marque -- poser has its benefits even pitted against a program such as maya.
poser used to be very efficient in what it did - which was primarily posing and animating figures. many animators who worked in professional applications still used poser as an animation aid... though most were loathe to admit it.

the problem is that some people are obsessed with this idea of making poser into a jack of all trades program that does everything. it doesnt take rocket science to deduce that a program that tries to do everything will ultimately be good at nothing. there are currently very affordable modeling and morphing applications. people need to stop trying to coerce eF into making poser into a modeler/morpher and let them concentrate on the important aspects.