AmbientShade posted at 12:42 AM Fri, 14 April 2023 - #4462123

Poser and studio come with a crap-ton of ready-made content

And all of that is aside from the steep learning curve Blender requires. It's UI is nowhere near as newbie friendly as Posers or even studios. I use blender pretty extensively, I even went to school for 3D animation and even I have issues and frustrations with blender's UI. I

This is the story in its totality.  I pay for 3D studio Max each year, and I STILL use Poser. There are tens of thousands of users, just like me, who want to get from idea to scene as quickly as possible, without having to go through weeks or months of additional, unrewarding effort. I consider modelling (and worse so, UV mapping, rigging, lighting and developing clothes), to be the equivalent of a pianist spending long boring hours practicing scales - a tedious means to an end, with the real goal being to make music/art.
I get so bored with people constantly raising their nose at Poser/DS and saying ""Just" learn Blender!" I can make a great outdoors scene in Poser right now. To do the same in Blender would entail at least a year; maybe even several, to attain the competence to do so. My art is mediocre at absolute best, but I consider Poser scenes to be a sketchbook of my ideas, not a perfect reproduction of life. Yes, that would be great, and Bondware can DEFINITELY do better, but I want to go from idea to reality quickly, and in the background, I can plug away at learning other software.
And while we're at it, why are all the Blender people wasting time with that program? "Just" learn 3D Studio, and those 3D Studio people - wasters - learn Maya, and why aren't the Maya people writing bespoke 3D programs! I'm being facetious - Blender is a wonderful program that has democratised 3D but you can always use that elitist argument upwards can't you?