"Because it is supposed to be used and was used until about Poser 5-6 when the owners of the company decided to group them together so it would break if people moved it. It is still used by a number of companines and vendors."

It gives you a lot more flexibility IMO. If you have multiple characters all using the same .obj file, you're free to place them wherever you want. We now have V4, A4, G4 S4 (K4?) all using the same geometry AFAIK. You don't necessarily want to put all those .cr2s and their variants, in the same folder with the .obj. It's similar to windows putting .dlls used by multiple programs in one central location. If you have a .cr2(s)/.obj set that's "unique," putting them in the same folder makes some sense.

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