A lot of carraraests didn't upgrade.

Most carraraests already have most of the carrara spacific content. Little new is coming out; Ringo's done some shaders, and Howie has released 2 new scenes{?}.But the new plugins aren't at DAZ; I think.

Carrara content sales have bottomed out so sale sale sale sale. Which doesn't work if you have everything already.

DAZ still seems to be clueless, even though the biggest part of C8.5 was genesis lafhassed compatability, that carraraests use poser/studio content.

DAZ has yet to realize if they had released C8.5 at a reasonable price C8.5 sales would have doubled or tripled and they would have far more carrara content sales and eaven O.O more genesis content sales.

Note never trust DAZ to shave it's self with a straight razor, they are too prone to cutting their own throat.