Victoria 7 was the reason that i started using daz studio but i stil use poser pro 2014 to. I like firefly rendering it has a certain painteresque thing but for realism i prefer iray.

I do not think that SM is abandoning poser but there marketing and market research are not very great and that is an understatement. You will not get love on this forum for your post, you are touching a very sensitive topic.

Just do it if you want to start using daz studio, there are a lot of supportive people at the daz forums as there are people very helpful at this forum.

Michel