Quote - I think it seems to boil down to the limitations of Poser as an animation program, just being devils advocate here, but the blurb on the SM site does state "Poser Pro 2012 is the fastest way for  professional artists and production teams to add pre-rigged and fully textured 3D  characters to their projects." In all honesty not the blurb you would expect from a hobby software program as someone mentioned.

I think a lot of long time users are still thinking of the program's original purpose as a digital version of the artist's mannequin.  I fully agree with you here.  It's not the users mistaking Poser for a professional level app, once it was branded that way some of us came to feel it should live up to the claim.

Numerous features, most notably cloth and hair, have been added over the course of a fairly long lifespan.  Soft body physics would seem the next logical feature, as they are very relevant to the program's primary purpose.