As far as hosted scenes, in some cases that means totally rerigging figures and content, and that ads a lot of man hours into doing a job.

If a scene can be hosted, then you can take advantage of the huge amount of psoer content that's easy to use, and animate.

Combined with the power of some of the higher end apps, you get a pro looking result but with the ease of setup and use in poser.

Poser then becomes a inexpensive tool for pro studios, and all that available content is very atractive to get quick work done.

In the pro 3d world, time IS money, and usually a lot of it.

That said, I don't see enough really new "must have" features for myself, other then possibly normal mapping, which IMHO should really be added in P7 base.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.