Personally I think that when you're used  to one particulair GUI, it's rather hard to learn and to appreciate another one. From both sides: poser as well Daz|studio users I hear complaints about the terrible GUI of the "other" application. As a poser I find it difficult to use DS, because of the GUI, although I have the opinion that DS offers a lot valuable features that Poser doesn't have like the puppeteer module, which is great for making animations or in between poses. Both applications have  a property editor, but the looks and feels are quite different: Poser has dials and DS has sliders. It are just those little things that make someone love or hate a program. I have the same problem with autocad and Rhino: Rhino is by origin a autocad-clone, and  sometimes I use those two programs simultaneously, but when I switch from the one to other, I sometimes get confused by the different behaviour of their GUI's (right-or middle mouse clicks by example)

But to stay one topic: the main reason I don't drop poser is the dynamic clothing, I use it very often, for all kinds of purpose, not only clothes but also drapes and sheets, (look at my dynamic chairs in my freebie section) Just when there will be an easy (and cheap) way to make dynamic clothes for DS I would consider to turn to the dark side. (BTW 64bit dynamic clothing is still not supported AFAIK)

Rigging figures on the other hand is a complete different story: I bought the advanced figure setup for DS, and like others I impressed about the possibilities. I haven't used the new Poser8 setup-room yet, but there have to be some mayor changes to beat the DS rigging plug-in.

considering rendering and material setup: The new DS advanced material editor is just as if not more complex than the poser materialroom, so I haven't had the time to dig in the more advanced and esoteric features like subsurfacescattering and global illumination. to compair it with poser.

I think that DS-advanced has come very close to poser, but the new poser 8 update has given me enough reason to keep using it. DS has a lot of new features and possibilities, but it will take a long time before I have learned to use it with the same easyness I use Poser.

best regards,

Bopper.

-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?