"....that's what Larry Weinberg intended Poser for back at version one,.."

Yes indeed. It seems to have morphed into quite a different beast since those days.

"Poser Figure Artist is a virtual studio providing highly realistic human models to help artists create human figure art for canvas, sculpture...." "...for artists who want to use the human form in their artwork or studies, and would prefer an option to wooden mannequins and costly, live models."