Luxology was bought by Foundry, but I think it's still the same guys working on it. I always found Modo difficult to understand. Believe it or not, I got used to Blender faster than I did Modo. And I'm happy that happened now, because Blender 2.8 is just amazing by any standard. The Eevee render engine ouptuts photorealistic results in seconds. Cycles is still useful for some things, like still renders, but Eevee is unbeatable for animation.