I don't know about figure bashing, but vendor bashing isn't too friendly, either. :P C'mon, man. Be fair. Lots of vendors create great products and are responsive to their customers' reasonable feedback. They may not always make what you want exactly how you want it, but then that's true of every industry. Painting every vendor with the same broad brush is unreasonable. It's this soft of hyperbolic language, I think, that upsets people.

Edit: I don't personally know many vendors. But I have spoken to a few from time to time, and the impression I get is that most work very hard to create the best products they can, especially given the enormous time constraints they experience. They are overjoyed when someone likes their work, and are devastated when people don't. And frankly for what we pay them, and the ease with which customers can dismiss MONTHS of their work over something trivial -- all but the outright fraudulent ones deserve a lot more appreciation.

Moriador, I am speaking from my own personal experience.  Brickbats come with dealing with the public and if vendors are too sensitive to it, they should be doing something that doesn't actually require them to deal with the public.
I am sick and damned tired of dropping money on content and then having to spend up to half an hour unscrewing a product because the vendor (and the storefront Q&A - I'm looking at you 'Rosity) was too damned lazy to do the job properly in the first place. 

I am tired of having to go and rename file subfolders because the vendor was too damned lazy to make sure that they were consistent throughout the product.

I am tired of having to delete ego folders, so I can actually find a vendor's product.

I am tired of having to go and create .mc6 files for a Poser 9+ product because the vendor is hell-bent on not leaving behind a Poser 6 workflow.

I am tired of having to go and rename every single material because the vendor decided that 01, 02, 03, was more descriptive than red, green, goldenrod, etc.

I am tired of having to go and delete leading !!!! because the vendor wants their product at the top of my file folder.

I am tired of having to remake thumbnails because the vendor decided to be "creative" and make thumbnails that don't show what the product actually looks like.

I am tired of having to go and rename products so Poser's search function actually works.

I am tired of having to rename folders because the vendor decidedtorrunthenameofeverythingtogether.  (Which also breaks the search function.)

I am tired of having to remove_all_of_the_unnecessary_underscores.  Poser & DS4 do not actually run on DOS.

I am tired of having to delete .rsr files in content made in 2014.

At the end of the day, I don't care how long the vendor spent making a product - as a customer, it is irrelevant.  Those "Enormous Time Constraints" are entirely of their own making.

I don't mind paying a lot more money for a product - what I mind is paying a lot for a product and then having to spend time unscrewing it because the vendor is hell-bent on not paying attention to detail.  My mantra to vendors is:

If you make your product hard to use, I am less like to buy from you in the future.