You won't get any argument from me on that, teyon. That was something I mentioned in every survey for Poser that had a text field; better cloth room references, a collection of preset cloth 'types', things that people who didn't know the first flipping thing about shear strength vs gravity vs friction could actually use. The power in those integrated plugins is amazing....but you are almost totally alone in figuring out what is what. And lets face it;  shader programming is far harder than dynamics is, usually......but you get immediate feedback. And that 'animation' word does tend to scare the bejesus out of lots of folks......

There also seems to have been a generational shift in the market, as well. The old P4 weenies used to dig into the cr2 and assorted other files with gleeful abandon, simply because they could. Someone would figure out a new trick, and many others would hop on the bandwagon. Recently, the folks who want to push the envelope are being buried beneath the 'load and render' crowd. Which is cool, as it keeps the product alive.....but those of us who want to move the application up a notch or three get buried under the make it for the masses mentality.