How well the whole Gensis concept will depend upon how well the vendors support it and how much revenue DAZ takes in.

How many vendors and riggers really want to spend time learning an entirely new rigging system?  I and the people I work for sure as heck don't. 

I played with the Gensis concept months ago when DAZ offered their Project X alpha for testing.  The theory is nice but impracticle.  Genesis is a lower poly mesh that depends on subD.  Which means it's going to be more difficult than anyone realizes to morph a believalble male figure out of that mesh. 

DAZ is taking a calculated risk here.  It may pay off and it may fail.  They took one when they decided to give all their base models away for free.  Based on the fact their "free forever" lasted only about a year, means it didn't pay off.

The orginal concept of DS base app being free was based on the "so long as content sales" support it premise.  The standard version of DS that is currently being offered for free is only free for a short time and then DAZ begins to charge for it.

If DAZ wasn't offering DS4 Standard for free right now, how many users who paid $1.88 for DS Advanced about eight months ago would be interested in shelling out another $49 right now.  If you want to use any V4 cothing with the Genesis figure, you have to shell out another $49 if you are a PC member and $69 if you aren't for the AutoFit plugin. 

As for the Genesis figure itself, it's one figure.  Just like SMS Miki3.  Vendors are going to look at their market and decide if they want to stick to a proven figure with a proven market or go with a new figure that is limited to only one portion of the Poser/DS market.  And I'm not just pointing at DAZ.  SMS has done the same thing.  Had they kept Miki3 compatible with legacy versions of Poser and DS, they might have made more money.  By closing their own market, they strangled themselves.  But then I expect it from SMS.  They still have a lot to learn about Poser.  DAZ, however, has been in content creation business for a long time.  This is not a move I would have expected out of them.