True, the survey was just to provide cover for what they had to know would be an unpopular decision. Being able to say "your fellow customers asked for this" without giving any real detail is just another way of shutting down complaints. 

I can believe there were people who wanted better discounts on a higher tier.

I can even believe that people were ok with subscription features. (Though DAZ should have put in the work and made their own plugins. Taking existing plugins out of the store and making little tweaks to call them "new" is just scummy) 

But I can't believe that anyone knowingly said "screw us over with subscription-only content. We want to forced to pay for our figures over and over again."

Anyone who said yes to subscription content was duped by a slickly worded survey question.