actually, text editors have a lot of power.  i can do stuff in CR2 Editor, but frankly that's only useful when i need to look up stuff and know what it's doing.  it's not nearly as powerful for serious global  changes.  for instance, once i knew what channels certain custom morphs were using, i replaced them for all the injection morphs in their little directories in the libraries folder.  for certain sets, that was a few hundred changes per file for 6 or more files.  even with global replace in a Poser file editor, it's much quicker to do a whole directory as a batch.

and i haven't even used regular expressions on any files yet.  if Poser file editors support them and batch editing files, then that's great, but, well, Notepad++ is free and really easy.  it saved each search, so i could go back and see all the changes i made and how many.  just really clean and easy.

the difficult part was actually keeping track of what presets changes which dials in what body part and in what underlying channels.  oh, and that the script i downloaded to zero morphs is broken, and breaks the figure.  that took me ages to figure out because i only found out the figure was broken when i went to move the neck. 

a good text editor or versioning app can merge changes automatically.  no thought involved.

you don't need to know Alice, actually.  the issue is how to add any blank, empty, hidden channels and a visible channel group  to any cr2.  sort of like how V4 base was updated for S4. i can automatically name the Alice channels anything i want.  that's pretty simple.  the issue is making a figure that has channels to accept the morphs.