Right.  All that's really needed is for an upstart company (Or an already existing one) to simply do what Daz used to do (and they did it well.)

I don't know why Daz abandoned that business model, but usually what happens in small business is that someone with a "Vision" wants to expand, and that expansion costs more money, and the debt that results makes the old model look unprofitable when the reality is that it was just fine before the expansion (and new hires, new facilities, new equipment, etc)

I do not speculate that's what happened to Daz.  I'm just saying that's what normally goes on.  The baby is thrown out with the bathwater.