True - I'm not interested in animation - computer too puny for that. For me it is useful because the Cycles renderer is far superior and faster than Iray and the materials nodes system is so much better. One can animate within Blender, which is a lot more versatile than DS. Probably even import pre-made .bvh animations. Something i'm still trying to figure out is that it seems that the materials brought over bring my computer to it's knees - trying to use Eevee brings Blender crashing down. The same model imported as .obj or .fbx causes no problems, but the materials need a lot of work. Still, I've only had it a couple of days - still need much learning.