??? I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim that Poser was in any way perfect. And as long as we demand the backwards compatibility all the way to P4, then the program quirks that have been there -since- then are going to stay there. A compressed binary file format for geometry control would be a lot more efficient....but how many are really willing to give up the text based .cr2, and all the goodies that users have tricked out of being able to tweak the settings? I wonder if it would be possible for either eF or a third party to write either a script or actual encapsulated program strictly to convert older content to a new file format? If such could be made, so that we don't lose the years and $$$$$$$$ of content in incompatibility, then we may see a Poser Professional with a lot of nifty new lean capabilities. At the moment, though, its pretty much the animators who are driving the new features....and there just aren't enough of us. Look at the adoption time between the introduction of dynamic cloth in P5, and the -beginnings- of a mild degree of acceptance outside the 'Poser 12'. Dynamic hair is still in its infancy, and this is the 3rd iteration of the app with that capability. There is a lot of stuff that the current codebase simply won't support that could move Poser out of ghetto of 'hobbyist apps' that it currently still lingers in....but either there is going to have to be a change in people's wants, a hard splitting into two app tracks, or some solution is tricked out to allow us to have our cake and eat it.....