SM provided Poser Debut for users who wanted something more accessible. For that matter, you can use the basic features only in the standard/pro versions, though you’ve perhaps paid for stuff that you may never use. Having said that, I think I’ve only seen a couple of Debut questions here since its inception – so it’s either so easy no one asks or not many people are buying it, or they don’t come here. Poser has simply followed the path of other 3D apps in terms of ease of use. I don’t fault SM for features, but I do think that it’s gotten away from it’s roots in terms of casual users being able to access most of the features. It could be easier but that would take more work than they (or anyone else for the most part) is willing to do for that segment of the market. Frankly, looking at the render dialogs for apps like Max, C4D and Firefly, I’d be hard pressed to say that the latter is significantly easier by any means - DS is probably little if any better. I don’t think the market is big enough for anyone to justify abstracting the complexity into a simpler experience. Some of that has been done by people here like Baggins Bill, but for the most part, it’s assumed that if you want to do 3D, you want to get down in the weeds and fiddle, or be limited to the most basic capabilities. That’s just the way things are with a few exceptions like SketchUp, that took a pretty big cut at simplifying modeling. N.B. Google just sold SketchUp ÷)

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