The people and moderators of this forum are entirely too sensitive so it becomes a matter of walking on eggshells, which nobody likes, because you might hurt someone's feelings or worse...you might offend the super awesome contributors who are above reproach.

So, this is what happens when super-politically correct senitive types scour the earth clean of passion and vitriol.  You get a ghost town.

Congratulations, hyper sensitive chat nazis.  Enjoy your empty forums.

To rub salt in the wound, it is becoming self-evident to more and more people that Poser is falling behind exponentially with each new release.  This has already been discussed.

There is another possiblity on the other end of the spectrum:  Once you have all the tools, it's no fun anymore.  Some users here have so many tools at their disposal, and have mastered them all, that there's no longer a challenge and it's taken for granted. 

Put all three of these things together and I wouldn't say hobby 3d is dead, but in stasis.

One more angle:  The Vast majority of Hobbyists aren't good enough or have enough mastery of the ancillary software or esoteric features of poser to go further with it.  Only the upper 10% can truly express themselves artistically with the tools given, and these people don't require a lot of Q-and-A.