I had carrara long before DAZ lol Thing is I predicted what DAZ would do with carrara with in 6 months of DAZ buying it. And that was back when DAZ was still DAZ; being run by the founders. Not sure what went on at DAZ at that time but I do know one of the founders left DAZ to start a competing content site; and took a few of the best with him.

And here is why I am stuck with carrara

Maya $1,620 /year autodesk.

3DS max $1,620 /year autodesk

Blender pushes my frustration levels to the max.

UE4/unity are game engines.

C4D monthly pay to play $100, or $1200 a year.

And as far as I'm concerned Studio is a tinker toy app. The only time I really used it was as a prep tool for carrara. I used it a lot to convert old content to fit new figures. For me Studio was just a support app for carrara. Then DAZ broke that comparability and never fixed it before they abandoned carrara. What really got me was DAZ treating carraraests as second class citizens of the DAZ empire. Like our money wasn't green enough for DAZ. The real problem; and this will piss a few people off, was carraraests weren't the bend me over and give it to me again DAZ costumers DAZ wanted.