DAZ Studio is much better than poser. Much better animating controls, It has tings to make animating easier( puppet, powerpose, aniMate+), and just look at the PREVIEW mode in DAZ Studio.. Superb compared to Poser's even though it's the same method OPENGL. NOt to mention Camera controls in daz are easy and great. Translation and moving figures is so much easier.

Sure poser has Keyframing editing and controls and supposedly better Rendering engine( that's what people say) but not all of us are interested in that.

I just think People go for poser because perhaps of good marketing. Plus they think that because DAZ STudio free version is free, that it is cheaper. And that since Poser costs money, that it is better.

In my experience, i've suffered with poser for years . Animating and posing and all of that was just a struggle, so i gave up on it. I use it, but mainly for creating things that Studio can't.. Like using scripts that are out there. and for ward drobe wizard.

But aside from that, I don't see a need to go back.

Poser has become for me more like a tool to fix up stuff. DAZ is now my main tool for animating and posing and rendering.

On that note Rendering is also one of the reasons daz is better for me.
Pic of size 1024 X 7xx   with Raytracing like this one I'm including took guess how much?
about 12 seconds. Poser takes ages.