I have a lot of decent male figues in my runtime now, which are very versatile without Genesis.  I'm waiting to see if Brad ever makes it to the sale floor--perhaps he'd be a good alternative to M5.  I just purchased Miki 3 for times when I want an interesting woman, and download Antonia Polygon.  It remains to be seen if Genesis is ultimately something I can live without; only time will tell--but Smith Micro should use this an opportunity to have developers design some attractive figures with weight mapping as an alternative to the Daz human line; there are people like myself who have had bad DS experiences and really don't want to hastle with it again.  If they could come up with something like that, I'd gladly buy them as an alternative to the Genesis system. 

The Genesis thing is an endless money pit, and I don't have endless money--I refuse to buy duplicate generation 4 Daz figures as I paid good money for them in the original forms and am quite happy with buying inexpensive character/texture sets to get new looks and morphs out of them.

That having been said, I'm not sure even I will be able to withstand the allure of the M5 figure when he hits the store next month. . .