Although I agree with much of what you(leonardis) say I wonder if you aren't somewhat contradictory.

I certainly would love to see them focus on animation and making better tools so amatures can animate.  The GUI is very difficult to get the hang of.  Even then I find it very very awkward (like you say no ability to resize windows is next to criminal)  Moreover the animation features are quite lacking and I wish they would do more here to add features and to make the current features more accesible. 

But it appears to me that they are indeed moving in this direction.  They are including lip syncing.  They have worked with the render engine so it can create renders quicker if you have newer hardware.  Sure we woudl all like the rener time to be 1/1000th of the current time on our current hardware.  But how hard is that and what can we expect at poser's price point? 

My hunch is that perhaps we could expect allot more.  Sure poser costs 1/8 the cost of other programs but then again I wouldn't be surprised if they sell 8x as many copies.  But this sort of price point and development cost benefit is not my business.  In the end I really don't have the ifnormation needed for those type of business decisions.

Where I think your perhaps a bit contradicory is where you are asking for better figures.   This is personal preference, but the last thing I need is another figure.  Unless this figure is really  going to bring allot more to the table I say don't waste resources on designing another.  Make the Animation software better.    Make better effects, easier to use, more realism, shorter render times etc.  I don't see how making yet another figure really applies to the goal of making better Animation software.  But we shall see.  Are the new figures really something or just another figure?