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Poser should protect itself against all older light sets.

Poser should protect itself against all Pre-PP2010 materials and shaders.

Well, that's a version of Poser I would never use.

I would prefer to be able to make my own decisions about what lights and materials to use rather than being babied by software that assumes I'm too stupid to make the necessary changes -- or that assumes I only want to render certain "photographic" types of images.

Point and shoot cameras "protect" the users against all sorts of common errors, and as a result, you can take some very nice photos with some of them, but your creativity is limited. Some might say severely limited. I've yet to meet a serious photographer who used a point and shoot camera for professional work -- other than a journalist working under cover in a conflict zone. For good work, you need more options, not fewer.

I'm not disagreeing with Baggs. Some functions in Poser probably are useless. But a blanket condemnation of all old lights and materials, as Vilters suggests, is a huge overreaction.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.