Thanks Jon, you made some excellent points.

I personally don't care how many plugins there are for external renderers for Carrara, biased or unbiased.

Over the years Daz has shown itself utterly uncapable of handling 3 excellent software products: Bryce, Hexagon and Carrara. Daz has literally ruined these remarkable 3D apps. Daz's own cherished baby, i.e. Studio, still doesn't look like a finished product after 6 or 7 years of development.

My goal is to not give Daz the impression that with Octane they have a good excuse to neglect Carrara even more than they already did.

If Daz cannot implement Embree in Carrara, that would be a further proof of their management incompetence, because putting Embree in Carrara is the easiest and fastest way to improve Carrara in a very noticeable manner.

By contrast revamping Carrara's aging modeler would be a lot more difficult and a lot more time-consuming.