I used to use Poser as an endgame. The final piece to my image puzzle. Than I got Bryce and that became my renderer/scene creator, with Poser figures living in the worlds I made.  Later, after time spent with Rhino, wings, XSI, silo and rediscovering Max and modo I have realized that for me, while in my day job Poser is still my endgame, I like using Poser models as jumping off points in other programs. Especially ZBrush. If I could do character concept sculpting all day long I'd probably be a happy camper.

Thing is though, Poser's always been a part of it and a lot of what keeps me coming back are the people involved in it. Both in making the program and in supporting it.  We all have disagreements from time to time but I admire the community and its support (and often extension) of the program. Hopefully new visitors to the forums will see that for all the occassional bickering there's a wealth of knowledge to be had here.