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And the better the data, the better the window into what our users want.

Then why don't you just ask the users directly what we want?
I too was thinking "marketing" through much of the filling out of that survey. The questions were rated on levels of importance, but the questions were the questions you Poser guys were asking.

Do I think it's important that Poser have a more traditional interface?
What does that mean? I guess it means you're considering changing the interface, possibly after a decade of reading complaints about it? But that depends on if you perceive through this survey that the users who filled it out think so? And I guess that could be applied to all the questions.

Why was there no empty form where we could list things we would like to see? You've commented a few times to comments people have made regarding the survey, but have not commented at all to the number of intelligent suggestions made just right here in this post, if even just to say "thank you for the suggestions."

I would have felt better about it - felt more like it was a sincere gesture if there had been a space to put suggestions.

Or, you could just do like Autodesk does and tells us all to fork off and deal with whatever we get. ;-)

Sorry I can't engage on any potential feature discussion. It's too competitve a landscape to reveal ones hand. As for the survey questions? They are presented in a classic Likert Scale which allows for us to debate internally at great length the meaning of each.

There are many staffers with a long history of working with Poser and this community that are reading through the various threads, thinking about the many suggestions, figuring out what can or can-not be delivered. And the survey complements that knowledge base with a more statistical way to look at everyone's global perspective on Poser.