Quote -  but were you doing more faster with poser?

The short answer to your question is....no. I had to actually buy a video tutorial to understand Poser.

I had Poser 7 but it felt sooo cumbersome that I got frustrated and just used it only to fix Poser files that did not work properly in Daz Studio.

Then recently I upgraded to Poser 8Pro because the interface looked so much more streamlined for work flow.  To me Poser 8Pro definitely felt like a  vast improvement over Poser 7 (and more stable).

However for speed of learning and also setting up complex scenes Daz Studio still felt faster.