You may very well be right, but I see it this way. Who are more suited to tailor Poser to the needs of the Poser community? SM or Rendo? I am inclined to say Rendo, purely because of their deep connection with vendors and artists. SM have more experience with developers perhaps, but so many decisions made for Poser left me wondering if they had any clue what Poser was actually getting used for. It should be no secret by now that many of the developers that worked on Poser, themselves never used Poser, and I strongly feel that the Poser Team was being shielded by a lot of poser conservatives and that much of the real criticisms never got through to them. That might not be true though. So anyway, Rendo might blunder a few times with the programming, but I they have more potential to head Poser into a more relevant direction, if you know what I mean. <

Most of the "real criticisms" were voiced in the forums, where posts get buried and lost, and devs have to wade through a lot of unnecessary commentary to get to the posts they really need to see. SM had "official" channels in place to communicate issues, and they are more apt to be noticed if those channels are used instead of posting in forums.

It also helps to keep the communications focused to one issue at a time, and to keep the explanation as brief as possible to start. If more info is needed to reproduce the issue they will ask.

And, for the record, there were at least six people on the original dev and support team that I can think of who actually used Poser. Unknown on the new team.