I started with Poser 5. If I remember correctly, it opened on a nude Don, gens and all, by default. It's possible I'm wrong, and it in fact opened with "Don casual" but my prefs got screwed up somehow. But for months, until I figured out how to save custom preferences, I was greeted by this fellow whenever I opened Poser.

What do you do with a nude Don?

Same thing you do with Andy, if you don't plan on using him in a scene. You delete him.

Maybe it's annoying for the brand new user to have to learn how to delete figures from a scene. But unlike the advanced materials or dynamic hair tabs, deleting figures really just is one of those things you have to learn in order to use the software. Might as well learn it in the first 5 minutes.

Maybe people buy poser expecting to pose Vicki in a temple right away. A non-human character confuses them.

Something will always confuse someone. I wouldn't have expected Andy to be confusing, but apparently he is. Maybe Poser 9 will open with a human again.

Edited to add:

Of course, maybe someone in the Poser development team suffers from the same problem I do: I feel very nauseated whenever I see a human figure appear mutilated. My first attempts to pose Don turned him into a pretzel and made me feel very ill. Andy would not have bothered me in this way. Somehow I doubt this is the logic behind Andy's existence. But you never know.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.