DS4 was a completely new version coz it has completely new tech in it. Therefore, it had to be built from the ground up to support the new tech. They prolly altered the UI because people voiced their dislike for the old one (or maybe they had to coz of how profound the core code changed - Ill leave that up to DAZ to answer) Me personally, I like the new UI better.... although, there are things that still don't sit well with me, too. Sad part is, what works for some tho, doesn't work well for others.

The only way DAZ can know tho, what works for people, is to hear their feedback. I don't think its anyone's intention to put a cap on it. But as much as people have seen what they feel is unfair censoring, I have also seen some pretty angsty posts with venom spewed in DAZ's general direction. If it were my forum? Yeah, I would stop that sort of thing, too. It's not professional, and can scare away other patrons.

As for Poser 2010 ... yeah its stable. But the bugs don't start showing up til you start really working in it and esp developing in it lol Like Poses... it was doing some really weird crap to me, where it would distort the body into some fandangled position after saving them... adding all this needless extra coding. It kept locking my actors on me out of nowhere, so midway thru working in a scene, I could not move the head, for example. All of that was fixed in 2012... but I had to spend 130$ to get the fix.

There's also a bug since 2010 that hasnt been fixed as of yet - where it renders a grid on the backfaces of something one-sided, if you have normals set forward and only IF you are using AO in the scene (shut it off, the grid goes byebye) Actually, AFAIK that will be fixed in the next service release. But it kinna makes me wonder why it took 2 major releases and numerous service releases to fix the issue...

Well, the answer.... sometimes it just takes time to get all the bugs worked out. A program is a pretty extensive and convoluted thing, with lots of parts and intermeshing of code. And this is especially problematic when multiple computer configurations are involved. I mean.... its a lot like chemistry. Certain chemicals mixed with certain other chemicals, can be perfectly fine.... mix them with others, and they explode.

At Who -- yes, I can see your point lol the mail men went postal! lol What I mean tho is, there is no leverage DAZ has being here discussing this stuff. If it was all about wanting to censor the masses, then the last place they'd go to do this, would be at a site where they have no control and no ability to censor anyone. I am sure there are reasons for it... one for certain being, trying to quell the fears and upset of the masses, as well as dispelling some heinous rumors that are flying about.