Something about all that is weird. Wolf, you're not the only one in there not buying. You've had issues with them for a while. Wendy also had issues with Daz mods for a while. Now, the forums include dedicated Unreal, Unity, and Blender areas. I recently received a banner suggesting that I visit that Tafi store.

Daz is more about content than software. It always was. DS is their most important software product. It's the only one they're even trying to develop. Carrara, Bryce and Hexagon are all one step short of being abandonware. They exist, but they're not being developed in any meaningful way. I'll tell you something, too.

3Delight is not actually inferior to Iray. The Daz implementation is half-baked. A lot of capabilities are missing. Wowie's AWE set proves that 3Delight is capable of producing amazing PBR output, but you need a threadripper to get your render in any reasonable amount of time. My system choked on the test scene. Oops! Still, I've done some work with it. In a lot of Daz content, the 3Delight materials are not set up for best output. It's the case with Iray, too.

The problem is, Daz pushes Iray to the moon. I don't see how that's going to work while we're in this environment where the RTX GPUs needed to make Iray go are currently unobtanium. But that's not a Daz-only problem, is it?