"I have to say, the idea that I'm not worthy because I don't yet build all the models I render is rather forbidding."

Well.  I'm not sure how you got that notion in your head ;)  Do whatever pleases you.  I think the reason a lot of us are very disappointed in recent events is because Carrara and Hex both were on a good track.  Eovia has made big strides with both products.  Daz has built their business on canned content for Poser, which is fine, but a lot of us in this forum are more interested in the tools than canned content.  Daz' history with software is fair to poor at best.  We love the toolset(s) that Eovia has developed and we have bought.  We're concerned that daz will simply use Carrara and Hex as vehicles to increase the 'shopping-channel-buy-this-trinket-buy-that-trinket' phenomenon.  But, from a business standpoint I give daz a pat on the back; a lot of people gleefully line up like sheep to buy any canned content if it's cheap enough.

Unfortunately, the first thing we see out of daz after acquiring Eovia is:  ...you guessed it...vouchers to buy their canned trinkets when you buy their recently acquired Eovia software.  This looks bad to those of us interested in the long term for the tools, especially after reading that the Eovia programmers are under contract 'through Hex version 2.1' I think they said.  So, what happens after version 2.1?

The biggest problem for some of us is time:  Should we 'give daz a chance' and see what happens with Carrara and Hex?  Or should we move on?  We have to make a decision and we won't know if we were 'right' for a few years.  I'd rather spend that few years learning an app in whose continued development I feel reasonably confident.  I'll take what I paid for from Eovia but then I'm reluctantly moving on.