I agree with you intro.  I started with Ray Dream, but used trueSpace for my main modeler. When Carrara came out, I pretty much switched, as trueSpace and its massive icon inventory became too busy for me (though, quite frankly, IMHO, trueSpace was/is a more powerful modeler).  Eovia staff had this can-do, imagination driven development philosophy, wheras DAZ has this content driven mentality -- like a Walmart for 3D stuff.

Something got lost along the way.  DAZ offers a much better deal on upgades if you are one of those DAZ model collection junkies, and belong to their junkie club. Simply being a long term Eovia customer puts one in the second class status for upgrading.  I just upgraded to Vue 7 Infinite.  I won't be upgrading to Carrara 7 from 6.2.