The old cloth room was untenable and cost money for each copy sold.  They are still working on improving the Poser Cloth feature but that will take a bit of time as itis not a simple off the shelf program that just slips in and auto-magically works.  Back when Poser 14 came out there was the uproar over the fact it was presented with NO fanfare.  Since there were bugs in other areas of the program such as shaders etc. and the fact that the Poser Cloth was being worked on and is now part of the program not easily removed, they sort had to release the current bug fixes along with what was currently working in the Poser Cloth.  So, they did the big announcement and again a big uproar.  There would have be just as big an uproar if they had released the fixes and not said anything about the Poser Cloth.  Then they would have been accused of trying to sneak something in.

Which is why if you go back and look Poser 14 said right up front that it is not meant for those of you who depend on the OLD cloth room.  So, let's say Poser has to keep adding on more and more things and never removing anything old, what feature would you say makes for a new release version?  And bug fixes don't count as they are not new features just fixes to existing ones.  Part of the problem Poser has is that it has added on things over the years and almost none of them work together.  This is way before Bondware's times and to some degree even Smith Micros.  For Poser to go forward it is going to have to reorganize what it has inside and make it work together across the platform and not just in one little part of the program.  The problem with this is that it will break how someone uses Poser as they will have come to rely on the quirk and it won't be there anymore.

So you wanted the vendors to be warned?  What would this warning have looked like?  What options do you think they should have given?  The fact is the OLD cloth was going to be removed to make it possible for Poser to have options in the future.  What those options are I won't say.  

Now as far as trainings given the fact the program is being changed all the time it makes it hard to write a specific set of instructions as some of it will have changed.  They have given a basic set of guides as to how to start it will take a bit o playing to find out what works for you.  Also, it is going to come down to what you find acceptable as a result.  Obviously, Tipol is not happy with the Valentine Day dress, The fact is I have posted videos of that dress both in Poser 13 and Poser 14.  Multiple of Poser 14 as It is super easy to make changes to how it drapes and it simulates about 19 times faster.  Poser 13 took 38 minutes to run the test.  Poser 14 will do it in 2 minutes 6 seconds.  In Poser 14 a simple change to a single dial on the dress will result in what you see above.  And if I really wanted to, I could go in and paint in weights to curve the droop, so it is smoother, as it is that is a Single line of vertex's painted to a value to make them stiffer.  With the proper mapping it would have a solid center with fall off to the sides which would result in more curving.  And if you look the Dress starts with several inverted V's in the tiers which disappear in Both versions but in Poser 14 If I really wanted, I could make those stay.  One of the things this version can do that the old version can't is to keep in pleats.  As far as the dresses look it is kind of hard to determine what the look was supposed to be as some promo pictures it looks like a Tu-Tu and others it appears to drape more like what I have shown above.  But that come down to a matter of what you like.

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13, 14