Quote - Why do Smith Micro support/promote "Dawn" and not their own figures, like Roxie for example?

In my opinion Dawn is just another figure, not something to gather the poserverse around.

A statement like this from SM is really bad news....

I agree. I wish SM would put more effort into marketing their own figures. I like Alyson (esp. in her Anastasia form) and Ryan/Tyler and Miki4, but they're really a bit abandonware.
If SM had really pushed their latest pair of characters and made them seem worth having then there might have been some incentive to get the latest version of Poser, but SM seem really uninterested in their own figures. I really think it's a shame.