Aww, this thread also got derailed… 
now we’re never getting an answer to this.
I see parallels with Xnurbs/VSR and David Rutten. This is the most honest (and brutal) truth about Rhino on this forum, imo:
Grasshopper didn’t become a 3rd party plugin that was acquired by someone else and gave Rhino a decade of relevance, but now everyone has copied it and it no longer has the power it had before. Seems McNeel was betting that SubD (and not VSR) would be their next big thing to make it relevant for another decade, but that tech is apparently so simple that everyone already has their competing products released before McNeel even got theirs out the door!
Btw, since there’s only product designers in this thread, have you guys heard of Rhinogold? I just saw this on their website:
No, that’s not the price. That’s the discount. Guys, VSR was too cheap! 