CyberDream.  Your comment reminds me of the photography myth that the better the camera is the better your pictures will be. Many people make this mistake and fail to focus on composition and lighting. And if I had to look to see which software program renders better images then I would definitely want to look at how it handles materials and lighting.  Unfortuantely composition is one of those human elements and there is nothing out there that can work the composition of the scene for us.

With that said I wouldn't mind knowing enough about Maya and Vue to actually be any good at it.  I'm still at the intermediate stages of Poser and I'm pretty much satisfied with what I'm able to create at that skill level.  Maybe one day I'll be "super advanced"