Caveat: I'm a technical writer and this is an issue of near religious obsession with me, so I'm going to ask forgiveness in advance for being a bit over the top. 

Quote - What does it matter what his "purpose" is? Do like almost everyone else does - delete him and load Vicky...lmao.

I think it's a bit beyond the scope of most manuals to tell you what to "do" specifically with your program. The short answer is, you do what you want to do with what you've got.

Laurie

Harrumph!!!... I couldn't disagree more. Everything in an application should have a purpose. It should have an explicit reason for being there. In the parlance of MBAs it should address a "pain". Otherwise it's bloat.

I'm sure there was a reason why Andy was developed in the first place and why he was chosen as the default character, and I'm sure the Poser developers discussed that quite a bit during the process. My guess is that they wanted a human-like character with minimal features and minimal resource requirements so that new users could experiment and get a feel for the application in a quick and obvious way. Others have suggested that very thing, and others have suggested other things that Andy is good for, and that's an important point. Just knowing what his purpose is doesn't limit the users in what they can do with him. 

One of the reasons people don't read manuals is because they rarely tell users what they really want to know, and that is, at its essence, "What can this program do for ME? What can this feature do for ME?" Giving the PURPOSE of a program or feature answers that. Telling you what something DOES only hints at the answer. Of course, the Poser approach of just throwing stuff out there without telling you anything about it at all, is just downright rude to the user. It's like saying to the user, "Screw you, users. I don't have time to explain this stuff to you. Figure it out yourself."

Taking a "purpose-driven" approach to manuals doesn't significantly change their size or scope. It does, however, make them much more usable.

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OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Poser: 10