The question is would a different company do any better? So another company gets it, revamps it, brings it up to date, adds the features it's missing and charges $2500 for it; 30% off for previous owners. If that happened; optimistically, it would only loss half it's users. 

So changing hands could just mean a quick death, rather then a slow one at DAZ's hands.

Personlly I'd like to see DAZ put some real dev time in to carrara, feed them DEVs lots of fish, make sure they get plenty of sleep, and get the job done right. It would really be most beneficiall to all those involved, from DAZ's profits to us users. But I just don't see that happening.