Since this is slowly drifting OT, I'll add my 2 cents: Poser indeed lacks posing tools!

What I am missing is something more efficient than looking up the body part in a list spanning several screens (V4/M4), enter a value, change body part, enter another value, get back to the first because they are all inter-dependent, and so on for half an hour.
Just try posing a somewhat complicated pose, like someone putting his/her arm around the shoulders of someone else, and you'll understand what I mean...

For instance, all parts of a given limb* should appear on the same panel (for instance selecting "Left Arm" should allow you to pose all parts of that arm, from collar to hand, without having to change panels hundreds of times).
And before someone retorts such a panel would be incredibly long and thus unusable, I'm talking about a dedicated posing panel, used to pose things, which means it only has the XYZ rotations of the body parts (go to the old individual ones for morphs).
Now add to this posing panel the already existing feature to group (and thus fold/unfold groups of) dials, and I don't really see why this hasn't already been implemented. Too easy, most likely.  :-p

But I'm confident; I see several people in the Poser team seem to actually use it, which means they are likely to know its purpose. Not much software is as lucky as that. If they all go like me, "what does really need an overhaul and how can it be done", Poser will most likely soon be purged of all its hereditary flaws (or at least the worst ones...).

• How does Poser know what parts any limb has? After all, there aren't no 2 figures using the same rigging. We could include this information in the CR2, but it wouldn't work on the "old" content (99.9% of your runtimes). So I'd suggest to take the easy solution, and have that same rigging allow Poser to populate that panel "on the fly": Go down the root bone, and create new panels each time you meet more than one child bone. For instance, after loading a generation 4 DAZ character, we would get following "posing" panels:

• Hip, abdomen, chest, neck, head (the "torso" panel).
• Left/right collar, arm, forearm, hand (the arms, 2 panels)
• Left/right fingers, 5 times (fingers, ten panels. Still easier to use than 30 individual ones)
• Left/right thigh, shin, foot, toe (the legs, 2 panels)

Don't know about you, but I would be dancing in glee if I could pose only using 15 (instead of 51) individual panels.