Asexual nerds blowing hard on high-end software forums about the superiority of table lamps and robot unicorns do not qualify, with me, at my own peril for what 3dgraphics are used for, or how they should be used, or what should be persued by using them.

Video games and Visual effects for film and television are job one, advertising and print job two, and for any and all of these purposes, someone might have to render some cleveage or a short skirt.

THAT is reality, regardless of what the asexual nerd blowhards want to say in their asexual fantasy land.

The perception that the Poser community if fixated on it is justified, but is it a laughing matter?  I would say that's just intellectual snobbery.

Yeah, if I'm building Aston Martins I might have a chuckle at the VW factory's expense but not everybody wants or can afford an Aston Martin, so it's pretty much non-issue.