*"*I liken it a bit to flight. At first it was for Mavericks and innovaters. Next, early adaptors."

"Every great cause, begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." - Eric Hoffer 

There's a lot to be said for reaching your destination without falling out of the sky, but sure, there's always a certain charm to the pioneering days. Computers aren't as 'fun' as they were in the 70s, but then things like incompatible floppy disk formats and every mfgr. with their own OS etc. pretty much sucked. Once anything becomes a commodity, you lose some of that spirit of clubby exclusivity, the joy of new discovewries etc.

3D is still far from the commodity thing that video has become or the internet. It's still more effort than than the masses will bear and looks to remain so if the emphasis continues on reaching for more high end features over the kind of simplicity that mass adoption would require. It will probably happen eventually and then these may seem like the golden days in retrospect. I think there's always some sense of whatever by the old hands once everybody and their sister is doing something, maybe a bit of lost cachet. That may explain some of the negative attitude of someold school 3D folks toward Poser.  

 

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"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken