It's all in the matter of experience and what's available.  I've seen quite a few pretty bad Poser renders as well.  For me, my renders in Poser would look worse then in DS, 'cause I have lots of experience in DS.  But not that worse off 'cause shaders and light sets, which gets all the attention, are ready to load and render, whereas in DS, you have to have experience to set proper shaders and lights yourself  'cause most of them don't look good.  I gotta say though, since Genesis came out and more vendors have been actually opening and using DS and getting experienced in it, character settings have been looking better in some products.

Yes, Lux renders (Reality is only a converter) look remarkably better then both renders, Reality does a good job (especially Reality 2) in converting surfaces from DS.

...wolfie