I read the thread with the mind of - will this work in D|S... much the same.  Now, I have almost all the plug ins, I can do the translucency and AO and fun stuff if I take the time to do it, I know she'll look like utter hell out of the box with the super complicated Poser node spaghetti she's got goin' on, they usually come in green and sickly looking.  And while I'm perfectly capable of doing those complicated shader setups with the Elite HSS I prefer to do the best I can with the normal surface tab 'cause there are a ton of people who don't have that plug in and/or can't render that heavy of a load on their computers.  With very rare exception I end up tweeking pretty much every surface in a scene.. even with things that come with D|S mats, they usually suck.  If I didn't make them, or a small number of PAs that I know have a good grasp on the program I don't even bother doing a test render before fixing them.