What makes the expressions better? Is it just personal preference or is there some technical reason they are better than V4 facial expressions? It's hard to see any great improvement in facial expressiveness from the 15 images so far uploaded to the gallery here, which have credited Scarlet. 15 images doesn't seem a great deal considering 6 of them are from a single artist. 

I can see how better expression would make the figure feasible for an alternate option if portraits are your thing. But I feel the figure would need to be strong all round to be seen as progression from V4 and attract vendor support to the figure and user take up. 

Les has stated that she is built specifically to make use of the new features in Poser, I'm wondering what those Poser features are that the figure uses?

I'm also curious why the Developer resources were not given away free. It seems to me the biggest challenge of making this figure a success will be attracting Vendors to support the figure. Adding a $50+ buy in price just to take a peak and access the associated development tools seems counter productive to vendor take up. It seems more a focus on seeing an initial rapid turnover, rather than providing a long term platform for development and growth of the figure. Unfortunately not offering any form of Daz Studio Support is a bit of a deal breaker for me. The Poser market is shrinking by the day, opinions may deny it. But if you apply some typical market research analysis it does tend to indicate a decline in Poser marketplaces and consistent growth elsewhere. Which also adds to the risk of choosing to support Scarlet. Feel free to deny Poser's decline if you must, but please try to point to some statistics that indicate this isn't the trend before you give just an opinion.

WIthout having used Scarlet myself, she does look like a decent figure offering for an independent development team. But in comparison to the Genesis range of figures... I can't really see DS users beating down the gates to buy Poser and Scarlet. But to each his own and best of luck to the developers.