Quote - I understand V4 is ancient tech.  From my perspective, on the surface, Genesis looks like a viable alternative, but everything I've read by more experienced users and content creators has said it's worse than V4.  Understanding why has been like trying to read Greek.

I invented MAT poses. Genesis 2 rocks :) Je ne parlez-pas Greek.

The only real issue with the various Genesis characters is that DAZ now thinks they have to create a different UV layout for each new character. My advice is to find out which of the various characters has textures made for it that you like, and stick with that (I'm partial to the texture that came with Giselle 6, so that's all I use).

The morphing/shaping capabilities are amazing, and the bending is very good. The other main problem is that geografting doesn't work very well in Poser, so if you need anatomically-correct characters, you'll have to render (I use a custom realtime skin shader so as to avoid having to render, so it's rather annoying for those times when I do need more, um, 'detail' on my characters).