It seems to me that Daz studio is a platform for viewing and using brokered content.  Things like the upcoming cloth plug-in which is free until you wish to make your own clothes lead me to this opinion.  Thing is, alot of people never make anything new.  They are, I suppose, happy with the fantasy/military/medeival/sci-fi selections already available.  These people will be using created content, but not creating it, so it makes sense to charge them this way.  Poser, OTOH, uses a different buisness model, but at their current pricing I see no reason to complain.  I suppose I paid for features I haven't used, and bug-fixes to the ones I do use.  Nothing new there.  My biggest fear was that Daz would nickel-and dime me on basic stuff (eg: unlimited undos plug-in, $19.95, Interactive camera widget, sale price $9.99, etc.) but that hasn't really happened so far.  If they can keep the plug-ins reasonably priced, and provide a useful program when devoid of plug-ins, then I'm cool with that.