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Truespace was stalling for the longest time, and people were given up on it, believe me I was in the midst of it.
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Caligari did what Avid did with Softimage and rewrote the core of the program, leading to delays in it's upgrade time. The only people who gave up from what I saw were mostly fly-by-nighters. I see the same whiners in other forums using apps like Lightwave and doing very little with them.
The major complaints were with it's animation system, which has seen a massive upgrade now from what I can see. Carrara users could only dream of this at the moment.
That said, most people interested in working for a major studio go to max or maya as these are by far your best bet of getting a job, with XSI also not a bad option if you believe their hype.
Many Max users also see the need for it to be rewritten from the ground up, however you can imagine the uproar if 3ds had two years downtime.
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I personally will go where the crowd is, so Modo is one that I am looking into. Crowd means demand, it means cash and it means support. There is not a big enough crowd surrounding neither truespace nor carrara.
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Also remember that if you follow the herd, you'll end up eating dust.
Caligari have the only forums I know of (apart from silo) where the actual developers of the program, including it's original creator, post in forum threads, and also provide one-on-one support this way as well.
I would say the modo crowd is pretty small as well. It's not a huge fan-favourite like zbrush. Modo is cool, but it's not a major player by Autodesk standards.
If you want to join the 3d masses, my advice would be to buy Max and go crowd surfing in the mob.