No one rational is asking them to bankrupt themselves into turning Poser into Maya Lite.

No they're not. Individually, all the requests are perfectly reasonable requests. However, all together they're insurmountable. And everyone wants they're request granted NOW or they're not going to buy the next version of Poser. So who do you grant priority to. Everybody pesters Poser to be like their favorite software. Frankly, I just don't get it. If all I was interested in was animation and I loved iClone so much, I'd just use iClone. I think Blender has a more sophisticated animation tool than Poser. So much so that I haven't been able to figure it out yet. I have to export an object into Poser to get the drape effect I want. But it's one of the tools i use to do what ai need to do. I'm not demanding that Blender rewrite everything they do to be more like Poser.