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"Remember: JCM's are bad. They complicate the cr2, they use up resources, they make cloth design harder."

I can see your point, but I still disagree.
With nowadays computer powers, I don't think much of resources anymore. 
Unless you'll have a well developed AI driven joint system, there always will be the needs for JCMs.
As far as I know, not even professional CG figures in the movie industry are JCM free.
The point is, that the figure software should automatically transfer those JCMs to clothes, without the user having to think about it. 
Some other consumer applications are quite good at that.  
I agree, that La Femme is a complete fail - again.
At this moment Dawn 2 is about to be released SOOOON ;-) .
I was not impressed by Dawn at all. At least previews of Dawn 2 do actually look quite promising.
Let's see...