Somehow I don't think it will happen. Not for any business reasons, but probably the simple fact that they would probably view it more as defeat to DAZ than anything else.

I hghly doubt as I have said before that these decisions are based on emotions, and by market pressure I meant their customers. If enough of them scream loud enough SM might add support. It just makes so much business sense.

The problem is SM has been listening to the wrong people for a while now, namely those that have been emotional. Until only recently has SM released a survey for their customers, however it was released a link in the forums, rather than sending it to them via email address that customers used to register their products (if they left any). So, their results are going to have the same skewed results from the wrong people rather than a true cross section of customers. So if you don't get a true cross section of your customers, you're not really going to know what features you should be targeting.