The truth is Poser is on a class of its own.  I wish the developers would give more importance to animation.  With youtube and all the web video explosion on the internet is easier than ever to showcase your animation work.  Poser has a good basic engine to animate, it has been in place since Poser 4 but the advances in the features it offers has remained stale.  In the last 4 releases only the inclussion of layers has been added.  Still no way to key parenting or easier ways to parent figures to each other and have a better control during an animation.