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I mean vastly superior render times, due to having AMD, a better ray tracing engine in Cycles X and importing from Daz using Diffeomorphic is relatively easy with minimal tinkering required most times. As you mentioned the time - 15 minutes is often a similar time for me. Means I can pump out 4k renders with ease. Plus the compositing side of it all *Chef's kiss*. I am sure Daz is great -Some renders and animations I have seen are top notch. But the same can be achieved in Blender and I am far more comfortable using it as I use it daily! Each to their own, eh? mwah.
From what I've seen and taking in your experiences, I'd say daz might be better for rendering skin. It's just that blender is very versatile (yeah, compositing, sculpting, uv stuff, modelling) and that versatility is convenient. That said, I do most of my general posing and shaping in daz because I like moving the sliders around.The Sculpting and positioning clothes is exactly what I use blender for, just not the rendering, I just send it back to daz as a morph, pretty much my whole point is taking a scene into blender for rendering, results in less skin detail (unless you take the time to fix it) everything else you mentioned is great to do in blender, like if you want to create surface indentations on a sofa, blender or zbrush are perfect for that as is creating morphs for clothes.
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