I have to agree.  I had the option to trade poser 9s new features for  a better figure and It wasn't even a close desicion for me.  

 

 

Quote - > Quote - I got a better idea: Name a new feature in the past five years that a newbie can actually use without having to download a preset first, like most do. Name the features  in the past 10 years that the majority of Poserdom actually uses on a regular basis and can construct on their own, again w/o resorting to presets.

The subjective "newbie" troll-trap set aside, how about multiple undo/redo, multithreaded rendering, high dynamic range imaging, brush morphing, animation layers, cross body morph tool, global illumination, improved HW OpenGL, tone mapping/exposure tool, normal mapping, gamma correction, dependent parameters tool, improved joint rigging system, and 64-bit rendering.

If you'd trade even half of those for one "kick-ass" new figure, then it's obvious we have different prioroties and probably aren't going to agree on what Smith-Micro should be doing with Poser in the future.