The bottom line with me, and most hobby users and not 3D graphics professionals, is that a figure looks good and is capable of being used to fulfill our artistic vision, it's easy to use, and isn't exhorbitantly expensive.  People like me don't give a rats ass as to whether the polygons subdivide, and I don't care about Genesis per-se if a figures morphs can create the character wanted for a picture. 

What I do care about is having interesting and attractive looking human figures for my scenes.  I agree with William, Poser has not had attractive human figures since Don and Judy in Poser 5--since they they've all be either plain looking or blatantly unattractive (even some of the animal were hideous)--and have for the most part lacked content creator support for add-ons for them. 

So if one wants a new figure with a new look one is going to have to go with Daz's Genesis at some time or another at least if one wants to use this next generation of humans one has little choice but to get and use some flavor of Daz Studio.  I buy a lot of third party figures--but they usually lack content creator's support for texture maps and clothing so one is very limited as to what one can do with them