Which Poser features do actually work?

What figure is the best to start from when you want to develop your own character?

Is Poser suitable for anything else then hobbiists dollhouse projects?

Its the 4rth time I give up on a Poser project after spending weeks in the software, and lots of $$$.

Heres is the point where I give up:

The hair looks like crap, and there is no usable hair for the base figure this was started from (Roxie) There is, in fact, not much usable hair around for any figure at all. Sure you can buy hair for $$ from Bondware but its mostly crap, more or less.

Despite that strand based hair was a novelty 20 years ago and Poser even has its own hair "room" There is no strand based hair that works. The whole hair room doesnt work. Ok, today we know that dynamic polygon hair is possibly the better alternative-. But there is no such hair. Its always static, and 96% looks like crap, and the rest needs about 2 weeks to render.

So I tried to make my own dynamic polygon hair but I fail completely at modeling and all that, cause thats not my thing Same with clothes There are no clothes for this figure. I am bad at modeling, and I dont have the time for that, and its 2020, and this soft comes with 130 years worth legacy content. Yet no clothes that look like anything for this figure. Just 1989 quality stuff.

So I tried to focus an what I was always good at, thats shaders and lightening. But the "IBL" doesnt even have hdr bit depth, and the material "room" has these bugs that make it close to impossible to use.

I give up on that. Again. What a waste this was.

And its such a pity, Poser could be and could have been an "industry standard". But its like a horse thats leading on the track and then just before the finishing line it struggles and breaks all its limbs.

So, what advertised features in this soft actually work as advertised? How do you make semi-professional project in Poser? What figure to start with? Where do you get dynamic hair? etc