I am a Poser user since version 4. Daz actually used to design the figures for Poser in the early days--and Poser has had several different owners over the years. Then Poser's parent company had a falling out with Daz when they started to develop Daz Studio. You can find the complete history of Poser in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser

I think that Don/Judy were the last Daz designed human figures for Poser. Don was actually as good Michael 2, but no one came out with much stuff for him, but I think Judy actually enjoyed some degree of popularity. But the feud between Daz and Poser's owners was the real fly in the ointment. Don could actually accept Michael 2 texture maps with some tweaking.

When e-Frontier bought Poser from Curious Labs it's answer to this problem was to open Content Paradise which offered a Platinum Club type of membership, with weekly free models and lots of content for their human models. We first started with a lot of stuff for James/Jessie, then plenty of offering for the G2 line. When Smith Micro took over though, all that stopped. The answer I think is that Smith Micro do another club, pay content providers to make things for their next generation of people and make sure those people are attractive and that people will want to use them. It's a shame that the deal was cancelled for Apollo to become Poser's default male figure. Really I think the G2s did enjoy some degree of success; but the male figures body types were not the types I like to us. I want Poser to live on, I don't want it to die. Content Paradise has very little to offer me these days. If the G2 figures had body and facial hair and a variety of mapsI probably would have used them much more than I have. Nash that Jepe developed for the G2 male was actually quite good.

If the next version of Poser worked better with Genesis perhaps everyone could be happy--but I am skeptical.

Am I the only one who worries about Poser continuing to thrive? E-Frontier had the right ideal, and Smith Micro could make more money if they had better content.