Basically I like the idea of giving us as much freedom of choice in respect to which modeling tool we'd like to work with, but the other option would be to make MED as good as possible and userfriendly as possible , I doubt most of us even have tools like Maya at their disposal. Importers/exporters always have the disadvantage of needing an update as soon as those 3rd party tools change their formats.
I would like conitec to continue to focus more on improving MED itself, rather then adding all sorts of import/export functions. I've got used to the bones within MED, and even skinning got a lot easier since 6.4.

Cheers