I couldn't agree more.
If you think Carrara is counter intuitive, give 3DS Max a fling.
I believe one of Poser's greatest strengths is its user friendly control interface. For whatever my opinion is worth, it is the standard other program designers should follow.

Quote - From the renders I've seen: Carrara is capable of nicer landscape renders. But what passes for "advanced" renders of people... sorry.

And the interface is completely beyond me. Nothing makes sense to me in Carrara.

The main advantage of DAZ Studio that I can't deny is simply that it plays nicer with DAZ figures - morphing V4 can lead to anomalous lines and other artifacts in Poser that just don't show up in DS. But beyond that, I just don't try to compare. My initial experience with DS was that I wasn't able to get things rendered, so I gave up early and switched to Poser, so my internal wiring is all Poserized now.