I am sure it is possible for Genesis vendors to make profits without the companion files and good luck to them.  There is little in the Genesis market at present so it should be easy for the vendors to carve out a piece of the action.  All find and dandy if you are using DS, Poser is a different matter.  Should Poser users really be spending time trying to make a halfbaked after thought work and reporting the bugs so it will get better, assuming of course any of the bug reports are actioned.  It is up to the user to decide but it is a bit of a streach to blame the Poser users for the lack of vendor support for companion files.

As to a boycott of Daz, well I haven't purchased anything from there for almost two years. Not as a boycott as such there is nothing there that I can use that is exciting enough for me to spend my money on.  I have just accepted that Genesis is not a Poser product and moved on.  I am sure the amount I spent there will not impact them one bit, despite the fact I spend far too much each month.  Still whatever they did lose was Rendos gain as PC membership became Prime membership and my wishlist alone could keep me going for months.

Anyway moving back to the thread title, No I don't think 3D is a dying art it is just people are doing different things than they did a few years ago, some enforced by the market maybe, but then that is progress.

 

 

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.