Reason why they are going this route is the SANE DAZ users are sick of the direction they are going with DAZ so guess what they resort to, to getting their DAZ assets:  PIRATES LIFE!  This is why they are doing it cause people are sick and tired forking out money to companies that don't give two Fs about their customers.  Pirating is becoming a norm and as long as these companies keep catering to the Weird ones, our wallets will remain closed.  I hear some vendors are already leaving Daz and going to places like Renderhub to start selling in hoping to gain any sort of income.  Get woke, go broke, and you can't change my mind Gen 9 was not woke.  Gen was a disaster and gen 2, 3 and 8 were great.  Why go back to the very thing that was a disaster? Answer: to cater to the weirdos.  Screw daz.