I am not too sure it is Genesis that is killing Daz, only time will tell but the PC is another matter, stopped my membership months before Genesis arrived purely because I was not getting any benefit from it.  Since then the number of products that appeal to me has reduced still further.  When I closed my PC account I purchase Prime Membership here and by Rendo's figures I have purchased over $300 worth products in just short of a year, all of that spend would have been done at Daz3D in the past, and that is only on Prime products. 

I do not dislike Genesis but I use Poser and I do not want to move to Daz studio.  I also want to spend my time trying to create art not jumping through hoops to try and make a non-Poser product work in Poser.  If I was in the market for a new figure, and I might be soon, my money would go on My Michelle not Genesis.

I may not be a typical hobbiest but I know I was certainly not the only one to stop my PC memebership in the last year.  Changes to the PC membership itself did not appear to help neither did the problems with the Daz web site.

I suppose the logical answer to your question is only a few select people know if Genesis is killing Daz and they are not going to post on any forum.  Logically it would seem that Genesis is hurting Daz as since it's launch there have been a drive for new figures and, assuming the size of the pie remains the same, the more competition the smaller the slice for everbody.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.