Assuming 10 years ago we were with version 5 you've now got -

Bullet Physics 

Soft Body

Dynamic Hair

Paint 

Non Linear Animation Clips

Mimic for Carrara ( plug in)

and

 What’s New in Carrara 8.5? ( as listed by Daz)

⦁ Native DSON Importer means seamless integration of:

⦁ TriAxTMWeight Mapped figures (Genesis, G2F, G2M)

⦁ General Weight Mapped figures

⦁ Legacy Parametric Figures (4th Generation and earlier)

⦁ DSON presets

⦁ Scenes

⦁ Scene Subsets

⦁ Wearable(s) Preset

⦁ Character Preset

⦁ Properties Preset

⦁ Shaping Preset

⦁ Pose Preset

⦁ Hierarchical Material(s) Preset

⦁ Material(s) Preset

⦁ Shader Preset (preset must be for a Carrara shader)

⦁ Camera(s) Preset

⦁ Light(s) Preset

⦁ Support for multiple UV sets (through Hierarchical Material(s) Presets and Material(s) Presets)

⦁ Native AutoFit functionality means:

⦁ Conversion of legacy parametric clothing to TriAxTM weigh mapped figures

⦁ Automatic Morph Projection quickly gives you the fit you need for your figure’s shape.

⦁ Automatic Weight Map Projection allows AutoFit clothing to bend and pose smoothly with the figure.

⦁ Morphs built into clothing are carried through the AutoFit process.

⦁ Improved Sequencer, Keyframing and Animation Tools

⦁ New keyboard shortcuts to:

⦁ Play/Stop animation

⦁ Advance the frame

⦁ Preview a frame

⦁ Key Frame Filters

⦁ Sample – Creates a key at every frame of the animation.

⦁ Smooth – Smooth out wild keys to get an even looking animation

⦁ Reduce – Programatically determine which keys are unecessary and eliminate them.

⦁ Graph Editor Box allows for fine tuning of animations

⦁ Easily adjust timing

⦁ Simple yet powerful manipulation of amplitude

⦁ Scale, and translate key frames along the Graph Editor.

⦁ Marquee selection of key frames for Graph Editor.

⦁ Smart Content and Daz Content Management System Integration.

Not all is perfect but then you're not paying $4000 for the software.

All these "features" are only good if you want to keep suckling at the DAZ content teat and dropping your money down their toilet, plus all of these "features", like everything else in craprara (oops, typo), only works half-assed at best.

I can do all this plus a 1000 times more using Blender AND it costs NOTHING!

So where did you get the "$4000" figure? Let me guess, you actually paid $4000 for some piece of software? You must be one of the "if you don't pay through the nose for something, it's not as good" crowd. I imagine you would pay just about any amount to DAZ for the "priviledge" of being able to pose halfnaked girls in "fantasy armor".