Daz is hopelessly mired in managerial dogma, failed applications development and self congratulatory egotism bordering on the absurd.  They have been told many times by professionals in the graphic and programming arts the fallacy of their software development approach, to no avail.  They have ticked off lucrative vendors.  They have run off their customer base.  They have ridiculed experts in various fields which would have proven useful to their endeavors.  A behavior caused by the dogma of a very few.  Daz insists on reinventing (and screwing up) Bryce. They see their vision for Bryce as the only valid one.  They claim the current situation is not their fault.  No, it must be "them". They claim the program is too old, or the software is imperfect, or it needed to be fixed (boy, did they fix it). They make up any number of excuses to explain how they managed to take a decent piece of 3D software and turn it into a nightmare and graphic community laughingstock.  Yet even now, Bryce apologists say the advances are worth it.  Really?  It's not even a decent beginners program anymore.  Daz needed mature management and guidance.  Unfortunately, most of us no longer have the time or inclination to wait for them to discover that greater reasoning skills create greater responsibility.  Strident voices drown out reason.  Bryce and the Bryce community continue to suffer at their hands.  We wait for them to ask the right question, "Why did this happen?"