K, so this is what I've gathered from this thread. 1. Once upon a time we could make our own dynamic cloth. Which is great because folks are right: the DAZ dynamic content is extremely lacking. Sure I look at what's available. They're mostly meh. I have specific uses for what I buy. Only one object in the past year, the shawl, has met the need. 2. Now we can't make the dynamic cloth because with 4.7 that's broken? Tell me it ain't so cuz... I have specific needs.... 3. To stay on topic and run the risk of being completely ignored past the ranting and round about unhappiness with things that have nothing to do with DAZ, the moon, unicorns and various things, has anyone tried to beat the problem again? Not that I think we should fix what DAZ keeps breaking so much as we need to fix what DAZ keeps breaking, and understand I've been pretty darned unhappy with DAZ since they broke how I used pwtoon and gave me drama over it when I filed a ticket. SSsooo... can't afford to buy one of these other programs, I make do. 4. Dynamic cloth? Anyone? Wah.

DAZ Studio has never had a way to make Dynamic Clothing. Nothing is or was broken in that respect. DAZ Studio has a plug-in that allows you to use and drape cloth that was created in Optitex and then prepared to work in DAZ Studio. Optitex is a (the) professional clothing design software package used by the fashion industry and produces not only very realistic drapes (and with the correct hardware it does it in real time) but also lets you automatically take that same pattern and use it on a Professional Clothing manufacturing machine for cutting from cloth and sewing it. Naturally for all its capabilities, it is not a cheap piece of software. (Depending on your exact features and licensing it is, at the low end, in excess of $10,000.)

The player in DAZ Studio, is just that, a player, and that is all it has ever been. 

A certain individual that was a DAZ 3D, made several promises that should never have been made, and due to these there are a number of people that make all sorts of claims, loosely based on these promises. 

So there is no Dynamic Cloth Creation, other than the Optitex software suite itself which requires a conversion plug-in that has never been released, tools for DAZ Studio, and there never has been any such thing in DS. Nothing has gotten broken.