"2b. You will never get the vendors on board for a new figure" We would have to look for new vendors that would support a new figure.

"So I think anyone making a figure would benefit from copying that idea from Daz3d and release the base mesh for free with the most common morphs and then special morphs and textures are bought separately. Because that would allow vendors to easily make content for them." Good idea. For a new figure, we should look beyond DAZ, though.

Step 1. We should study and observe our environment.

Step 2. Create a human primitive and look at our options.