Interesting. Historically, DAZ gets away with using installers becuase they are DAZ. Anyone else using them gets vocal, constant complaints about any sort of installer. And yet, for newer users, installers really are easier to use. It's the long term user that has had plenty of experience and already established a workflow and habit that tends to dislike them more. On a strictly personal note, I dislike the installers becuase they slow down my ability to restore or reorganize my runtimes. I can unzip an entire runtime in a single fire and forget process because I have my zip files organized according to the runtimes I use. With the installers, however, I have to do them each one at a time, and even when my impatience gets the better of me and I do 10 to 15 files at once, it still means flipping back and forth between them. as a general rule, I've since adotped the habit of converting all my daz files over to zip files.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)