it's the same problem as with poser, which in its early versions was simple enuff for
artists with no knowledge of scripts or shader trees.  now poser is the domain of
geeks IMVHO.  they can slather and drool over their overclocked 8 GB machines
with 8 cores, but when one checks their galleries here, there are often no images,
meaning artistry was replaced with technical braggadocio, and thus we all lose something
in the process.

if they make carrara less user-friendly and more complex, it'll be the same thing.
right now we can see some users getting excellent results using human figures
with plenty of affect in their renders.  I wouldn't wanna screw that up.