As you can imagine, it's not easy for me to answer about Hexagon developpment, for various reaons, but as you can imagine, we were not able to do what we want at the end.
When DAZ won't exist anymore as e frontier in 50 years, I'll tell you the true story behind all of that ;) I'll write a book!
And Wacr: sorry, I'm rewritting all the Amapi 8 documentation :D