I hear ya Cyba. I can't afford 3dsMax, or any of the other majors yet, but I may go that route eventually since DAZ seems to be intent on turning Carrara into their top-of-the-line content renderer instead of further developing it into a competitive all-round 3D app.
   I have about the same attitude toward Poser-type apps as you do. I am still proud to be a Wingsian heretic like yourself, but I'm really learning to like Hexagon2.2. I've been building terrain blocks and outcrops in Wings and displacement painting and texturing them in Hexagon. They work very well together since Hexagon really likes .obj imports. I still love Bryce though. It opened up the doors to the whole world of 3D and I'll always be fond of it.