SamTherapy posted at 8:08AM Mon, 20 November 2017 - #4317780

For me, Poser has a much easier, more intuitive front end than DS; I still can't get comfortable with DAZ after many tries. Maybe it's just me getting old but I can't see me ditching Poser any time soon. I don't animate stuff and have no desire to do so but the new features in Poser's rendering are stuff I need to get me head around. When I upgrade fro Pro 2012, that is.

I understand perfectly. Everyone has their own use-case, comfort zones, etc. Last year's Nagios is this year's Zenoss is next year's NewRelic, umm, don't ask - the point is, some folks chase the new-shiny, some folks are cozy with what they have. Me, I like the DS interface because, well, I helped build it (though honestly? A lot has changed since then.)

That said, if something better still comes out, I'll chase that instead, but whoever has that 'better', had better make it easy to use the megatons of content I already have (or it had better be so mind-blowing that I'd be willing to ignore Sunk Cost entirely.) I'm sure the same goes for most other folks, no matter what they use and prefer now.

At the end of the day though, like all good things, what we use and prefer must come to an end, or it changes to an unrecognizable beast that bedevils us. SmithMicro may as well make those changes happen in a positive direction that attracts others to it... because that's pretty much what it will need to do to survive. The rub is that it's against SM's entire raison d'être. I hope they can overcome that.