>> It would be great if someone - anyone - took the onus off of end-users to go through the hassle of converting products, through much trial and error, to varying effect.

Dynamic clothing might convert well, but conforming clothing is quite time consuming to convert. Aside from that, the original content creator would have to get involved because converting clothing to V4 would result in redistributing the mesh that is reshaped to V4. There's a thread called "SubjectL I have a question" in the community center forum where someone was wondering why more vendors aren't creating for both DAZ Studio and Poser, and basically it's just about double the work. The genesis shapes have to be converted to fit V4, and the weight mapping and materials are very different in each program.

It's a matter of preference, I suppose, but some G8 and G9 renders simply blow me away with how realistic they can look. While I have a ton of V4 stuff myself, I haven't used her in ages. As popular as she was in her day, I have seen renders of Genesis 8 and 9 that appear near photographic quality. .