Attached Link: Why Bryce?

I hope this doesn't p*** off too many of you, but I figured this was the place to get honest answers. The question: Why use Bryce? I'm reviewing Bryce5 for a Canadian publication and suddenly, after the second all-night render of a simple (I thought) landscape, it suddenly hit me...The emperor has no clothes!!! Why would you want to use Bryce? Is it because it's cheaper than other landscape programs? Is the lighting better? Is it because there wasn't a slower rendering program on the planet? Was it because you spent so much time figuring out those stupid Kai tools (to move up and down, move your mouse left to right)? Sorry, but I don't get it. Everyone seems to import objects from other programs (Poser in particular) because it's so hard to make anything in Bryce unless you happen to be Wappen or Munns. So what's the deal with Bryce?