I've had a lot of disagreements with some of the folk posting in this thread, some voiced and some not, but I cant argue with the need for poser to ship with a top notch male and female figures along with a modest assortment of basic content for them.  

I also agree that it is worth, not necsarrily setting aside the current generation figures, but definitly setting in place a new origional mesh or male/female pair of meshes that would become the new 'standard' poser figure.  It/they would need to be fundamentally top notch and allow for versatility in morphing, simpler content creation, and superb rigging to make posing less a pain for them that hates it.

The other thing not yet mentioned in this thread...I'd absolutely LOVE to see SM liscence or re-create Dimension3Ds morphing clothes functionality within poser.