Define Gone.

I am using them (along with every other character I have ever purchased).  I am even doing a set of tutorials on how to get your DS content out of DS and into Poser without the need of using that PoS DSON over in the DAZ Poser forum (at least until the mods delete it.)

Clothing - not so much - it is so easy to use the fitting room on the genesis figures that there isn't a need to buy figure specific clothing anymore.

But, for my art, my go to is the SM G2 figures - Sydney, Jessi, Miki, Simon, Kelvin & Koji are my go-to figures.

The Daz figures are my "red-shirts", for the most part.