in Poser 3/4 days there was

Softimage ,Max ,Lightwave they where the big 3

at that time they could only do about a 10th of what Blender can do now.

then came all the rest etc etc

Softimage is being ghosted 2015 ,once the king ,now ...R.I.P.
Lightwave forums seems like a ghost town compared to back in the day.
Sad ,there both killer app's but not the most user friendly.

So if they can't survive ,kinda hard to see how med rage app's could survive.

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