"... most of the user base are a captive demographic and Daz knows it."

and our culture celebrates the response to that addiction - "for the win..."

I wince at the possible manifestations of the inevitable comeuppance for this collective short-thinking behavioral trend across our culture and society. It makes perfect sense and yet it's incredibly self-destructive. The amoebas eventually run out of sugar in their petri-dish.

To me, DAZ is simply an insignificant but representative symptom of an ongoing and exponentiating trend.

Wolf, your general response is, to my thinking, the only viable response: minimize dependencies in all domains, 3D not-withstanding. This concept terrifies the cultural opium dealers.

The larger percentage of our culture is conditioned for so called 'instant gratification' be it amazon prime or tik-toc - in a world where the non-emotional forces of evolution have no such need or interest.

I know where I'm placing my bets, hopefully as a spectator, out of reach of the hardly fictitious 'borg'.

So I'm not worried - I bailed out my part of the Titanic.

best, --ms