It never ceases to amaze me that we continue to judge if a piece of software is floundering or not based upon how much money vendors can make from it. I do no use DS but I don't hate it or the way the market has gone. You can't blame the vendors for a perceived floundering of Poser because a lot of Poser users moved to Genesis, which works better in DS, that is the way it was designed. That included the Posers users who just wanted the latest and greatest and those who saw real benefit in Genesis, the vendors just followed the buyers.

Poser has always concentrated on the program and not so much the content, the inclusion of the Wardrobe Wizard and then the fitting room decreased the reliance on third Party content. I still use Poser, I still buy for Poser but I use Dawn and mainly buy dynamic clothing that will work on Dawn and V4 and any other figure really. I have no need to buy specific V4 clothing anymore.

To me the success of a piece of software is more based around if it does what I want it to do and do I enjoy using it. I don't really base it's success on how much vendors can make out of me.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.