I am from the VFX "market".I know a humongous number of talented artists that don´t move to Corona just because it lacks a SkinShader and a proper HairShader.
The people that votes on those pools are NOT that people. Because they even started to use Corona... So, my vote if for those features... Even if it has less votes, it can potentially opens a NEW world of artists starting to use Corona, and talking how good it is, and doing awesome stuff around the globe, showing his works and carrying on the Corona Seal with it...
This is much more than 2 features for Corona. At least from my perspective. ArchViz is already well served. There´s a lot to improve, but Corona is already at the point to be everywhere when you talk about ArchViz. It already broke the Vray hegemony on foruns and famous archviz sites... People that do ARchViz already look at Corona with good eyes...
So, it´s my 2Cents about this. Bring more tools for Character and VFX worlds, just a few more, will bring much more $$$ and good propaganda to Corona.
Don't over estimate the Skin shader.
For Corona, thanks to this "little" shader, will open a new, complete World!
Material preset = 100 votes
Skin shader = 47
Mmm... As an arch-viz artist, I never used SSS, or SSS2 or Skin Shader
But I understand how cool is for a character artist to have a shader like this
Material preset will have less impact on Corona popularity.
More users (not onl arch-viz) = more money = more programmers and coders for everybody ^____^