Quote - As a vendor, I can explain this a bit. Almost exclusively, I use Poser and not DS. I purchased DS3Adv but it fails to work consistently - crashes a lot - when I try to develop shaders in Shader Mixer, which is why I got Daz Studio 3 Adv in the first place. So, I lose all my work.

Products such as clothing and characters (and even a lot of props) rely on shaders to give that realness effect. I write shaders in Python for Poser, and it makes a significant difference to how things look when they render. I would love to do the same for DS - it would increase my market significantly - but am hampered at every turn by the programme I'm trying to write shaders for: DS3Adv. So, it's not about hating a programme or user base: it the programme itself that is keeping me from creating the content I wish to.

There are a lot of content creators for DS (and heaps of stuff for DS as well) so someone has apparently been able to get around the problems I continue to have. I'd say something is wrong with my copy of the programme. I've submitted bug report after bug report with no reply or acknowledgement from Daz, but since then I've learned that now with DS4, they are not planning to fix the problems in DS3.

So, you can see my dilemma.

ETA: I think I was able to do that without Drama or Flaming: just stated my experience with this.

I think you helped make that clearer. 

Well, I'm sorry for my attitude.  I just kinda feel like I'm going into a bar and being told by the bartender that they don't serve my kind there.  sigh