I wouldn't quite say that they have gone seperate ways, as a little bird (well, a scaly bird!) reported that weight mapping will be incorporated into an upcoming version of Poser. They are just two different approaches to improving the rigging...

 

Edit-just a thought-would weight mapping support enable Poser and Studio to import rigged figures from other applications such as Blender or Lightwave?

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