What has happened, of course, is somewhere similar to car technique.

Yes, my first car I kept running in wintertime by putting pieces of plastic buckets over the sensitive parts of the ignition, and at least once a week I had the hood open for some form of fix, to clean the nozzle, tune the ignition. If I had this car which was my first today, the police would probably take if off the streets for being too noisy, emitting too much smoke, not meeting the safety requrements (althoug it had seatbelts, which was a novelty back then). It would be accepted as a hobby, maybe, for a round the block trip in summer, but not for daily commuting. 

Today, under the hood of my car, there's just a whole lot of electronics and gibberish I do not understand and fear to look at.

Old day Poser technique was pretty simple and could be understood by studying a content file. Today there is much more in there than the avarage hobbyist can understand. Anyone proudly bringing out a figure like Posette or Vicky, state of the art of Poser technology of their time, today would be regarded with pity.  

Poserism simply is not that simple anymore.