BTW - how can Gen4 be considered dead in DS with all of the effort being put forth to get Gen4 content into the newer meshes in DS? There is a difference between using her content, and using the V4 Base figure. The base, people have moved on from. Her content, still used on Genesis. That is what I meant by V4 is basically dead inside Studio.

In effect, what was done is DAZ co-opted all of V4's content to help promote new figure lines. Hey, that was an excellent move, on their part, and one that sealed the deal for their new figure lines. A very smart move, indeed, and DAZ makes very smart moves fairly often in marketing their products to their customers. Kudos all around, honestly, for a job well-done on their part. But, it doesn't do doodly for Poser users, so we're left with looking for other solutions if we want "new."

It wasn't brilliance - it was making a virtue out of a necessity.  Genesis 1 had less than 300 items released for it in it's first 6 months of existence - without autofit, genesis would have been just as still-born as any other figure not named Victoria 4.  Even today, most of the characters made for the genesis line are made by less than half a dozen vendors - just like any other post-V4 figure.

Poser users have been able to autofit content even before V4 was released.  I was using Wardrobe Wizard to get V3 content onto my SM figures back in the 2005/6 timeframe.  Just because DAZ adds a feature doesn't actually mean that the feature is "new".  It just means that it is new to the DAZ community.  See: Animated Joint Centers (Apollo Maximus, 2005) or UV switching (Poser 2), just off the top of my head.

AFA V4 - Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to the DS/Poserverse just like it does anywhere else.  With V4's 8+ year run that 10% is simply larger than any other figure's runtime.  What is great now is that regardless of which application you prefer to use, you can still use all of that content on any figure that catches your fancy.