I, too, am uphappy over the divergence of the two programs, simply because I don't believe the market is big enough to "support" two separate collections of figures and contnet. 

Exactly!

And in the interim?  Is anyone going to DIE because V5 (which, again, is just a morph of Genesis) won't work in Poser?  Is anyone going to DIE because figures created with Poser's new system won't work in DS? 

Actually, I think some people just may. :/

All I'm saying is, for God's sake, have some patience!  P9 and PP2012 have only been out for a couple of months, and DS4 and Genesis have only been out for about the same time, and it is far too soon to be getting all upset about it.

Can't speak for the rest of the Poser users, but I am plenty patient. I have at least 2 year old purchases that have never even been installed, let alone things I've installed, but not even toyed with yet.