My feeling is most of what is wanted will come, If anyone thinks that they are holding back implamenting these features just because they are not putting forth the effort or what ever, that would be foolish.

I think what EF is trying to do is put in the features they hear on the peoples wish list and taking on what they can do within a certain frame work when they think they have enough of these features warrent an new upgrade. I also think what they are doing is trying to implament these extra freatures so as to not price them selves out of the already established market. If they get there program out and correct any updates needed they can move on to the next set of features.

To wholesale create all these new features wholesale, and scrap what they have would be suicide. You can't just change the exsititing rigging so that all the charactures with all there clothing are obsolete. Not all, but a large percentange of the people are happy with most of what poser has to offer.

It's like you only have the money and the room for a macineshop that can only tool up to make one or another product, you had decided to make tricycles, and later you decide you want to make bicycles instead, now you have to scrap the tricycicles and retool for bicycles instead. Well that's great for the ones wanting bicycles, but you lost the tricicle market.  Now you are the new kid on the block and have to compete with all the other established companies that make bicycles. You are starting from scratch.

Believe me, if there wasn't a good reason for EF not to rerig the figures and add all the extras, you would have them asap. There is no doubt about it ,that the rigging is an older  tech. I'm an animator, and what they have the biggest short commings are within animation, with there rigging. Your learn your craft, and you will get the results you want, it just might take a litlle longer than with the high tech programs.

Take a look at all the people that use Poser now, They have room to improve, yes! but they must be doing something right . The whole process is much more complicated than, just lets ad all these new features. Just look at the new features in animation they have added. sound simple, but if it is that simple, the people that seem to thing so, are missing there calling and show EF how easy it is do.