It's going to be interesting to see where this all goes. I simply cannot see it in any different way. So I think Chaos needs a kickstart on this kind ů of product, which I believe will merge with Vantage before 2024, and become the flagship of their product line. 1 minute to set up, direct visual feedback. Heck, even phoenixFD will eventually be outgunned (in the archviz field) by very simple to use flames, water, smoke etc. As for initial model work, enscape wouldn't cut it, not in a lifetime, but why would we need vray in eg 3ds max when all rendering is done in Enscape/Vantage and vray materials are replaced by physical material anyway? No need to pay for that.

With more and more use of OSL and physical materials, I really don't see chaos' place in the future if they don't jazz up the realtime animated object/shaders and dynamic weather system. Its huge drawback is that it doesn't have vray stuff support. Twinmotion is just a few versions away from, if not already, great render quality and post effects. Twinmotion with its huge improvements in each released version seems like everything we would need from Vantage. Vantage needs animations and easy to use stuff like Twinmotion do, not to speak of constantly new objects.

Enscape vray