" A case can even be made that the shame is on a publisher for not charging enough for their product"
Perhaps Poser 7 would have been better developed if they had put more resources into it, which would mean charging more for it.
So the choise is, a cheap program that doesn't work as it should, or a more expensive program that works very well.
Put your hand up if you would pay $500 for a version of Poser that does what it is supposed to do, ie. doesn't have the large and ever-growing list of faults we see here each day. The memory issues, the hangs and crashes etc. basically the design faults.
I for one, would wait and save my pennies for the better deveploed program.
Don't get me wrong. I love Poser, I just hate the problems that come with it.