You were also fortunate to have people like LesBently and Diogenes in your corner IIRC. And a tremendous amount of support from the community. The landscape is quite different now... or least it seems like it to me.

Note to Bondware, you might consider adding a similar functionality as GoZ for Blender users. Subdivision morph support (if that's possible) and a welded translation that maintains vertex order from posed in scene. I guarantee you there will be more potential content creators using Blender to make stuff than you'll find people running Zbrush. At least legally. That's not a bash on Zbrush at all, it's a fantastic program. It's simple math... free... or 900 outright or 40 a month subscription. Anyone who comes up with a script utility for Python3 that has similar features to PML will make some money no doubt.