As for Figures that came in any version of Poser, you always have a choice not to use them. I personally have not used Posette since P6. You also have 3rd party figures you can use like Vicky, Aiko, Miki, Maya Doll, Him, Her, Apollo, and so on and so forth.

Poser is now much better than when I first started using it from Poser 4 (demo).
You also have a choice now which app to use: Poser or Daz Studio.

There are also other apps you can use which have better render engines, I use 90% of the time Carrara or Vue to render, since intro of the collada beta for Max I even have tried rendering in Max. With Daz Studio you can use that or Bryce (owned since Bryce 4).

You have choices!

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