"What does the price have to do with anything?"

I"m sorry, you think this stuff comes for free? Hey, if it's in Blender, THEN USE BLENDER.  But to insist that Smith Micro install every single little thing you've found along the way in your voyages through the 3D universe is, well, ridiculous. And yes, you've paid the upgrade price. No one said you have to, but you did. Maybe instead of payingfor every single upgrade, you might look at the features and say to yourself, "Hmm, dont need that. Think I'll give it a pass."... which is precisely what would happen with all this higher-end rendering capabilities that only a few folk like yourself seem to think is so absolutely necessary and which wreaks havoc with now legacyitems.

I repeat: the people who have invested more into this program than just the upgrades are the customer base for it. And if you do something that messes with that huge investment, you will lose that customer base. It's that simple. 

Turning off the notifications. Have a nice day, eh?

You were unable to answer a simple question, so I guess you don't know either... If I'd been asked I would have suggested a PBR-based GPU solution optimized for animation, rather than a CPU renderer optimized for stills.  Just because I disagree with your perspective on Poser development doesn't mean I agree any more with the actual direction of development.