I am sorry to hear about your bad experience with DAZ products. I've bought a few things there and I would say the service was excellent. In fact in the past their tech support gal was a real sweetheart and even helped me with my Poser 4 technical issues. As for the new DAZ studio you are right on the money. Unless they've got something humongous up their sleeve that they haven't let on about this will be a real wasted effort that will achieve very little commercial success. They're not just taking on Curious Labs, they're taking on every other established software with a render engine, pose ability and materials palette (Maya, 3DMax,lightwave, Cinema 4D just to name a few). Just my two cents.