None of thoes cloth systems are perfect!
But Maya is more open in that question thanks to MEL and API.
Personaly I support Maya simply because theres far more creative and inovative team behind Alias.
I dont know how much will Autodesk keep this creativity or destroy it.

But why do you guys stick so much to cloth system...

Cloth is one of thoes things you can learn best in the industy.
If you really wonna go in deapth with cloth, shaders, visfx I suggest you to start learning programing...omg.