The rigging system of Poser isn't that bad - if used right. Examples: Apollo, patorak's Plain Jane (WIP at DAZ), and the rerigging phantom3D has done on V4.

I've seen some incredible work with skin sliding over muscles in 3DS Max at CGTalk. While it would be very cool to have physically accurate skin movement in Poser characters, but a Poser that could do that would be ten times as expensive as it is now (and be called 3D Studio Max, or Maya).

As far as I know, Poser is still the cheapest 3D app that has cloth simulation and strand based hair. The next one is Carrara, at more than double the price of Poser.
DAZ}Studio? Dynamic cloth has been promised for over a year now, and it's still vaporware. And again, it's a paid for plugin. And the version that allows the user to make his/her own dynamic cloth will be far more expensive - as far as I can tell, almost as expensive as the whole Poser package itself. Go figure.

The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter

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