"My personal thoughts is that this is less about giving back to the community or making an effort to support Poser and more about control and a requirement to keep DAZ Studio in the pipeline"

And if indeed that was the case it would be no more "wrong " than what Adobe, Autodesk,Maxon, SideFX et al ,do with every new  program specific feature they introduce that requires you to use their program to access it.
Like them DAZ is running a business ..not a Community service.

" then there's no reason not to release a Poser only standalone of V5."

yes there is.
 it called duplication of effort
( labor costs& tech support)
if a stand alone V5 will have the Same  crippling limitations as the Cr2 plugin exported version of genesis.
Why bother releasing it  separately??
let those who desire it export their own iteration from DS4 with the free plugin that will soon be in all versions of DS4.

let me guess:(not quoting anyone in particular)
"Some people's hardware cant run DS4"

Sorry that  is a personal economic problem  for which Daz is not liable in the same way that SideFX  inc. is  NOT at fault that I can not afford a newer mac to run Their free Houdini apprentice HD.

"I HATE the DS interface and see no reason to be forced to install that CRAP on my system just to get at genesis."

OK, but be an adult and live with your choice to make an Emotional, partisan, tribal hatred, based decision about one particularsoftware program.

or perhaps people with sufficient hardware could play a mind game with themselves and pretend that DS4 is a "character modeling"
application like wings 3D  or Blender.

you open DS4 "build" your genesis "Model" to your liking.
Export to Cr2 and load into poser
just as you would use blender to build yourself a Sofa or table prop etc for poser.

such a mind trick might work if one really tries.

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