Coleman:

There are two places where I strongly disgree.  The first, your defeatist attitude toward figures, along with you assumption that company unmentioned will forever be the number one.  The Poser Roxie and Rex are both darn good figures, bending well, not horrid looking, and not as your company unmentioned, something resembling what Vargas did for Playboy as a cartoonist.  I use them over and above the company unmentioned figures. 

EClarke and now Vilters are making darn nice stuff for Roxie, and the other figures that you say should be reduced in resolution and relegated to background.  No.  They should not.  Far better they continue developing and improving them.  the V thing and M thing have run the gamut, reached the end of usefulness, probably soon extinct.  I really could not care less.  P6 James is a far more believable character than anything done on the M thing base.  I don't like Jesse, she needs a complete workover and refinements.

THe DSON thing, daz grew it, daz can chew it.  It's not SmithMicro's responsibility to crawl to that standard.  Daz made the mess, let them figure it out.  I see some reference to the "G2" in reference to daz software, G2 is Alyson, period.  It was a long  time before the gene thing came out.  And even Alyson requires no more than a few dial spins to look pretty realistic, same cannot be said for the V thing. 

My guess is most of the complaints about the Poser figures are the result of one two minute look and it not meeting what you wanted.  Get used to it, there are dials, there is the face room.  There is also my first choice of clothing, Poser dynamic.  9 times out of 10 I'll choose a dynamic cloth over conforming.  And it is usable as it is.  There is somewhat of a learning curve, but not much.

Doric

The "I" in Doric is Silent.