Well, some version of DS has always been free. add in all the things people keep wanting to poser and I'm not sure how fast or user friendly it would be - not to mention probably being more expensive. Part of Blender's complexity is down to it being able to do a lot more than Poser/DS - that and some design choices that like being keyboard centric - though I hear that's changed.

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