well as far as I am concerned the only sin Dawn committed was she's not named DAZ Vicky ;)

You are exactly right! She is a great figure and I use her all of the time, but she entered the market when V4 was still reigning supreme and Poser users were clinging fast to her and still hoping that Daz would somehow change their minds and make a fully integrated Vicky for Poser. Now that V7 has arrived and has even less compatibility with Poser, they have finally realized that it isn't going to happen. Meanwhile V4 has been steadily aging. Dawn has extensive morphs, and I can make characters just as beautiful and versatile with her as any other figure using just her official HW Head and Body morph dials. I love that figure actually, but there needs to be a much greater vendor base creating things for her in order for there to be a mass exodus of Poser users from V4 and/or the DSON G2. There was a lot of bashing and there continues to be bashing of the Dawn figure based on her default shape and texture which I have never understood because who renders V4 in her purple second skin swimsuit or the gray un-textured-unmorphed Genesis figure? Also, because she is not a  Poser only character, vendors do perceive the need to support both DS and Poser for her, and that greatly slows down the production process.  At the same time, vendors need to be able to make a living at what they do, and in order to get a figure really going, they would need to be willing to start supporting another character in the very least in tandem with whatever other figure they are supporting and not look at the short term gains but the long term sustainability of what they are doing. Who knows what will happen now? 

I keep reading where people say Dawn had her chance and failed to make it. That is kind of absurd since the only way for a figure  to take the place of V4 for Poser is by years of content and a steady replacement of her in the store, not a mass rush, but through sustained support. It is time for Poser users to look beyond Daz figures and as far as I am concerned Dawn is the best option for that. HW is also getting ready to release a new edition of her, so she has not gone anywhere despite the predictions that she is somehow obsolete. 

"People who attempt define what art is or is not, are not artists"---Luminescence