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You make the same mistake many other users here make:

Treating Poser as a "poor man's" MAX or MAYA.

 

But Poser is different. It's users are different. It's purpose is different.

In the right hands, the "so called old" Poser rigging can do everthing "Pro" weightmapping can.

99.9% ....

Of course, Poser is not Max or Maya. But that does not mean that Poser shouldn't adapt new things, or we could still use Poser 4. Of course people use Subdivision and the Material Room, simply because the features are already in the sets they use. They will use Catmull-Clark as well, simply because it's built in. The figures will be smaller, it will be easier to make morphs for them, they will most likely bend better. 

I agree with you that Catmull-Clark subdivision won't be a reason to buy Poser for a large part of the customer base. But that does not mean that it doesn't make sense to include it. Otherwhise we would still have Poser 4.

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Sail out to sea and do new things.
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