It's guilt by association (both positive and negative).

There's no debate that really good work using Maya or one of the other high-end suites will blow a really good Poser render out of the water, simply due to the limitation of the technology.

We know it's really easy to do a crap Poser render.  It's harder to do a crap Maya render of the same (lack of) quality if you make everything yourself.

Thus the equation: if it's hard to do, but it's crap, it's still better than Poser because they didn't have to work as hard to make the same level of crap.  And since, theoretically, my program can do better than Poser, I am better than someone using Poser, even though they are producing good images and I am still producing crap images.

Which leads one to the conclusion that people putting out crap images in a high-end program, unless they are using them as practice to get better, are dumb.  I say that because why are they putting all that time in to make crap when the same quality of crap can be produced far easier?