Spitballing follows:

The issue of importing Genesis and/or V5 into Poser makes me wonder why Daz feels it needs to compete with Poser at all. 

Daz could make a stand-alone piece of software that strictly handles character generation/combination/morphing/rigging and exporting, complete with sub-ds and everything, for people to use in Poser.  Basically, a Vicky/Mike Generator capable of making infinite possible humanoids fully weight-mapped and textured and ready-to-go as if it was a brand new release of Victoria Version X.

 

Why worry about the rest of the tools?  Charge a pro amount like they do for Studio Pro, make THAT the flagship software, and start focusing on figures again.  DazStudio could then be a niche piece that people who prefer to use it over poser and the pressure is not on to compete with Poser so much.

Am I making any sense?