yeah, making content can be very time consuming. Any tools you can get hold of to speed things up are big necessity.
DAZ studio has done a pretty decent job at making built-in tools that help content makers.  Poser - not so much. You heavily depend on third party stuff to speed up your production... and there are so many third party things out there, it can take time to find a good one too.
It is super easy to spend more time making things then you will get paid for them.
You don't get paid for learning curves.

But... most of this is true in any production environment. 3D or non 3D, you have to work efficiently, and strive for competence (competence and efficiency often go hand in hand)

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