The default Judy was a bizarre looking character, but other users have found ways of making her look more palatable. The default Poser 4 female figure looked better. I haven't played enough with Judy to decide if the figure was grouped better than the earlier one.

In the end, Judy was doomed the way most Poser figures drop by the wayside--Lack of widespread merchant support. Wardrobe Wizard, and the other clothing programs, make it a little easier to use older, and other, figures. It's still more work. Unless a person has a favorite morph, of one of the older figures, that they want to keep using, there isn't a lot of reason to go to the extra trouble to convert clothing items.

My workflow is usually picking the outfit I want in an image rather than the figure, so I tend to look at the figure with the most clothing, V3/M3, and then V2/M2, before looking at any other figures. Picking a morph/face for the character is secondary because there are more than enough unique character looks in those figure sets to satisfy my creative needs. I'll occasionally feel guilty for not using non-DAZ figures, but it's just how things shook out in the Poser community. Now, if I need a monster, or other type of character, I'll often look outside of DAZ, though DAZ has been introducing some interesting alternative figures in the last few years (such as the Troll and Nybras).

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon