That is a good and positive ramble, I would love to see more of such a positive attitude.

For me you highlight two good points, firstly that with a few select, well thought out tools, people can move on to the later figure tech and still use their favorite characters and their investment in 3D.  Secondly that for a lot of people here it is not a job, it is a hobby and it is meant to be fun.  

Enjoy your playtime, it does look fun.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.