As I understand it, Daz has the best content and Poser has the best software, so there's no obvious solution.

I tried Daz software, and am done with that. I would like to use the latest Daz content in Poser, but so far that doesn't seem too likely. So...

For now I'm making myself happy with existing Poser content. This is probably easier for me as I'm new to Poser and thus more easily satisfied. The free character I posted about above seems pretty darn good, so I'll work with that for awhile. I really don't have huge complaints with the other characters either. Over the longer run, I assume that Rendo sees everything we see about the content situation and I hope they are willing and able to invest in creating some more compelling content.

This might help? If I understand correctly (I may not) most Daz and Poser users are not animating their characters. Especially in Poser, that seems a shame. Point being, if the characters were actually doing something interesting, and not just standing still, perhaps the aesthetic quality of the characters would be of somewhat less importance?

Perhaps I'll become more demanding about image quality once I master animation, which isn't going to happen any time soon. It's remarkably easy to animate in Poser, but not remarkably easy to do quality animation anywhere.