Sure one could have tried to make a figure that's more versatile. I guess that's the Poser/DAZ way. For an absolute beginner like me I think it would have been overreaching. Neither the mesh nor the JCMs are great. People got excited mostly because most of the Poser figures at the time were so horrible.

And obviously arguing over taste is futile. You see the potential of the figure, and that colors your perception of what is. Perfectly reasonable.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.