SM doesn't really want to go into making figures, especially with Daz pushing theirs so hard. Back when it was owned by EFrontier, you did have Terai Yuki which while not a great figure, it certainly was a very cute figure without going to the extremes of some anime characters (some toon characters here as well). There are other 3rd party figures. I picked up Maisie here and it's actually quite nice. I wish there was a less toony version (or face, including the other face and body morph it comes with) in maybe a morph pack addition. Part of the problem is the Poser community can't seem to get really behind Poser figures as much as the D/S community does. New characters sometimes get unfairly attacked like Scarlett did without realizing it was a first version and much smaller development team than Daz fields for it's characters. Renderosity and Hivewire have tried to support new characters (and even RDNA did it) with waves of content but Poser users seem to hesitate to watch development so sales start off weak. Honestly even at Daz there's no one character fits all. Their character development cycle turns over very quickly so one tends to spend a lot on either new content for the new character, or re-issued content that's now fitted to the new character (yes there's a lot of vendors that do that).

As far as development cycles being glacial, well Daz Studio's development is just as slow. Adding new features costs employee hours and wages, and often different versions usually sometimes wait for a paid release. D/S doesn't cost but there was a time when it did. Besides, how often would you pay for new features if they were released every year? Would you want a subscription fee like Adobe Photoshop does? I certainly don't.

In releasing new features, I prefer time given to quashing bugs and to bug testing. On a side note Windows 10 gets a big free update this Tuesday but will it bork your computer? Hopefully not.

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.