The ironic thing is that the only reason DAZ Studio even exists is that the original founders at DAZ were extremely worried about the long term fate of Poser as it bounced from owner to owner. After all, if Poser had gone under, there would have been no more market for DAZ product, so even though the first two versions of DS were less than impressive, it turns out that DAZ's worries were absolutely right. It's easy to cast Smith Micro as the "villain" in this piece, as their stewardship of Poser as both a program and a larger hobby has been characterized by a glacial pace of development and a never ending sideshow of ugly and unsupported new figures to cover the minimal software updates. But, at the same time, Poser users have to also look in the mirror and accept that the main reason that Poser has ceased to be the center of this hobby is that they let it happen via a mantra of "what we have is good enough." Sure, one can question whether DAZ was taking a crazy gamble when they dropped the V4 generation in favor of the Genesis figures, but on the flip side, the fact that the default figure for Poser is STILL V4, a twelve year old figure that was introduced two years before Smith Micro even entered the picture, and that the primary content included with Poser goes back even earlier to Poser 5 and 6, just goes to show how little initiative there's been and how little pressure there's been on SM to up their game over the years. At this point I'm not even sure if Poser can be saved, though any path to salvation is going to have to involve some major changes to the Poser business model. At the very least, Poser needs to settle on a default set of figures and stick with them, and Poser users need to SUPPORT those figures rather than clinging to a hacked version of V4 like an aging punk rocker who still listens to everything on cassette tapes. In my ideal world, that would mean either Poser running Genesis natively or Smith Micro permanently licensing Dawn/Dusk from Hivewire, and for Content Paradise to be taken out of SM's negligent hands and merged into better run store... and it's pretty obvious who the logical candidate for that would be. Of course, the least likely part of all of those scenarios is the notion that Poser users will move away from V4. At this point it's like watching that old guy on the corner who keeps getting his Ford Tempo repaired over and over on the grounds that it's cheaper than buying a new car. At some point there's going to come a time when there are no more old Tempo parts to be scavenged, just as, at some point, DAZ will eventually pull the plug on V4. You can only put off the inevitable for so long...