I didn't mean to imply that people on the Daz forum were particularly hostile; I just know that I was flamed pretty severely when talking about Poser issues on the Daz forums in the past. 

From what I'm reading I think that Daz Studio Advanced would be a boon to me.  Even though the scaling thing with the clothing is not a Poser "bug" , it is nice to conform clothing and have them fit without a lot of messing around with them.  I'd rather spend more time composing my scenes than tweaking clothing settings.  Plus the morph follower looks exceedingly helpful.

Shader node, though, arrrrgh make me dizzy.  ;)