Why is PhotoWorks so heavily "castrated"?

Well, the topic says it all.

Look at Maya or 3DSMax - why is it not possible to get the samefeature-set in PhotoWorks?

License restrictions? UI problems? Too difficult to implement?Technical problems?

Or is it because people at SW-corp don't see the need to createtrue high-end images?

A lot of SW-customers create their products in SW and have to handthem over to "professional" CG-companies to get really good images.An improved version of PW would be a great benefit for manycompanies.

Mentalray is great, PhotoWorks could bemuch better if it would have the same feature-set as theapps mentioned above...SolidworksPhotoworks