OK, while I'm at this fun prediction / recommendation game - here's what I think DAZ will / should do with the various softwares they own over the next couple of development cycles. Amalgamate and develop!

The entry program, which will / should become a combination of the current Studio and Carrara Basics programs, will be free or very cheap. It'll provide the basic content handling, figure posing and scene setting that Studio currently does, combined with basic modelling tools and some clever / quick render features. This tool will be seriously enticing to those wishing to dip their toe into 3D, and to those who want to run with it.

The middle program (currently Carrara + bits) will be a logical progression of the basic program, giving advanced versions of everything previously available. It'll urinate on all versions of Poser, Vue and Cinema; incorporating some of the XFrog vegetation technology (DAZ will buy XFrog), some of the GeoControl terrain technology and the Terragen atmosphere technology (DAZ will buy those too ;-)).

The mega program (currently Carrara Pro + lots of things ;-)), whilst still being recognisable to the beginners, will move into the cutting edge. DAZ and its content providers will use this to advance human figure simulation beyond the bending of meshes...

 

Anyway, back in the real world.
DAZ will continue bumbling along incoherently, making it up as they go; using their content revenue to buy themselves out of poor decisions (like acquiring Bryce). Their basic operating procedure will always be to sell the same thing several times over to the same customers. It'll always work.

Except with Bryce. Bryce will not move beyond version 6 under DAZ.