I don't know...

I'm well aware that nothing I could post would change anything about Poser and yes, I participated in their survey.

If SM rather "goes for the masses" instead of developing core functionality, then it seems I wasted the last 9 years of my live trying to learn Poser inside and out.

I guess I better had started learning MAX or MAYA insteadback in 2000.
At least then I wouldn't have to waste my time with people who think that knowledge can be replaced by a credit card, or that accuracy is just "optional".

Funny, during the 80's, scale modelling was practically dead.
Companies would issue just two or three new models a year, claiming that "video games" stole their market.

But then something strange happend:
Small cottage companys started to produce add-ons targeted not at kids and teens, but at "serious" modellers.
People who happily spend months researching history books and study factory blueprints and scale plans and don't mind spending hundreds of dollars just to get every, really every last detail exactly RIGHT.

The industry used to call them "rivet counters" and ignored them because the kids and teens (and the grandmas who bought a kit for little Timmy's 8th birthday at WalMart) were assumed to be the "big money makers".

And today ?
Today the big companies (And quite a few new ones) fight to the teeth over the "rivet counters" money.
Dozends of new kits are released each month, one more accurate and elaborate than the other.
And if the rivet counters find even a small flaw, some companies will happily spend ten-thousands of $$$ and actually rework the casting dies just to keep their consumers happy.
(Yes, the companies actually read the large scale-modelling forums, because they know a bad review can ruin a kit's sales.)

No more arrogance from the BIG companies.

No more in-accurate crap that is deemed "good enough" to be sold to kids (or their grannys) because "they couldn't tell anyway".

And scale modelling as a hobby (and an artform) is bigger, much much bigger than it ever was.
(And the kit companies make more $$$ than ever before)

Seems DAZ has finally seen the light while SM is now turning away from the very people who made Poser big.