An interesting thread you started here. I'm too new and I don't know if DAZ3D kills itself with Genesis. But I wanted to share nethertheless my thoughts about it - following a trace of DAZ3D mistakes.

I started doing 3D 1/2 year ago. 1 year ago DAZ introduced Genesis together with DAZ Studio 4. When I started I saw not that much content for Genesis, vendors still focused more on V4.

The lack of the SDK for Studio 4 was another issue, a lot of People didn't switch to the new version because of missing plugins. So they didn't use Genesis as far as I read in the old DAZ forums.

So I decided right from the start to avoid Genesis at all. Starting more with legacy V3/M3 and working my way up to V4/M4. Still searching for alternatives, like Miki 3, G2 characters or Alyson (2); and even the free mesh of Antonia at runtimeDNA.

Being a new user with professional background in photography I think that I'm not alone with my decision to avoid Genesis.

Let's see if Genesis turns one day to Exodus... ;-)