I think I've seen the light here...

We don't need Genesis or V5.  V4 is pretty much the be-all-end-all of what could be done for poser as it was at the time Daz3d decided to move forward with the Genesis project.  They wanted to edge out the software by being the first to introduce Weight Mapping.

I get that, don't you?  Poser is/was stagnant software and V4 was the best for it. 

If Daz were to give you a Poser ready "V5" it would be redundant because they've essentially moved on. 

But then here comes 9/2012 and now Poser is weight mapping too, but in a different way, perhaps, and there was no cross-talk between the companies because, presumably, too much competitive secrecy.

Daz feels, I think, and rightly so, that Genesis is the way to go, and therefore feels that it's up to Poser to integrate compatibility so that Genesis can work the way it's supposed to, rather than get endless spawned cr2's out of their program that do not bend well and ultimately might reflect badly on DazStudio, for those who don't/won't use it.

Meanwhile, Daz3d has no problems whatsoever working with it's brokering artists to sell Gen4 product.  The problem is, I suppose, that what else is left to release for V4?  The well runs dry, creatively, since it's all been done at this point.  Every once in a while, someone will stumble on to an idea that works, and they will sell it.  But it's just not as prolific as it used to be, and the returns are less on stuff that is ultimately redundant.

Daz3d...I stand behind all of this 100% if I understand it correctly.  I don't like DS very much, but I do like the Genesis concept and look foward to using Genesis in Poser someday, when I can do so the way Genesis was intended to work.  Meanwhile, I have V4 and V4 is pretty damned good.