i don't feel like it's the dark side, but...  the cloth dynamic plugin they just released with so much fanfare for "only" about $20 on sale (if you're a PC member) only lets you change settings.  and it's regularly $50.  i can't imagine how much they'll charge for the actual ability to make clothes, and how that might limit me in terms of modeling.  on top of that, the feature of a construction like real clothes that they say Poser clothes don't have and imply that the engine doesn't support is completely untrue.  that's how i started learning to make clothes.  i'm pretty sure i could do everything they've shown so far in Poser with the right dynamic groups, except i don't know how to make gathers (yet), because i don't understand how they work in real life.  so they're also kind of misleading about their stuff and its exclusivity.  combined with how much trouble it is to keep reinstalling all the plugins every time the base program updates, keep up with whether there's been a change to the rendering engine requiring an update to the plugins, whether the plugins have been updated or not  yet, it's just not at all optimal.

but i mentioning it here, because i've read the remarks about there being no market for these features.  DAZ is king of marketing to this community, and they not only see the demand, they're feeding it.  Poser will quite simply die off if it's about 5 features behind in terms of rendering.