I really hope this does not become another "Poser should support Genesis" thread that quickly repeats all that has gone before and gets locked.

Anyway, much of what you ask would be useful to me but I doubt I am an average Poser user.  I do buy a great deal from Rendo, every month, far too much in fact.  I do a number of renders and occasionally I upload to the gallery so that friends can see what I am playing with this month.  Is my gallery representative of my work, not really.  Is it representative of Poser users generally, who knows, most don't upload renders to any gallery.  Does it represent users who use galleries, clearly it is not, I generally don't do nudes so that is around 50% of any comparison gone immediately.

I don't want 'Photorealistic' as I have often said in the past, my aim is 'believeable, not quite the same thing but I have purchased the last two updates of Poser because of things like SSS and IDL.  They are a small step towards 'Photorealistic' but a nice step towards believeable. 

Finally there are many users that do not buy from vendors but have not abandoned Poser but build thier own and little that SM do is going to change that.   For me SM have got Poser about right and it seems to be in good hands but I doubt much of that has come about from listening to forum users, it is too small a sample to be important.

 

 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.