And finally as for the OP's question:

I knew the rift was coming the moment I had a closer look at V4 when she was released years ago.

For a moment I thought I was wrong once M4 was released, but K4 again completely confirmed what I had suspected: Poser and Studio going different ways.

That's why I never invested much time into V4 and instead perfectioned my completely Poser friendly V3RR/V3 hybrid "family". So, whatever will happen next, I'm perfectly good.

 

Still, having installed Genesis into Poser, I have to say that , for better or worse, this mesh IS the future of the Poserverse. Poser will have to adapt or die, especially as Studio4, right now, feature for feature, is the superior program.

The features SM implemented are not what the average user wants or needs. It's that simple.

I know my way around Studio a bit, but I rather stay in Poser as I'm using it for eleven years now.

And I'm pretty sure the Genesis cr2 exporter will be developed further one way or the other.

But if that for whatever reason won't happen, yes, I'll switch. Because most of those eleven years I spent trying to build better, more realistic figures.

And if Poser can't support this quest anymore, then it has stopped being useful to me.

But again, looking at how well Genesis bends in Poser, I still think we can have a happy ending. :-)