Hi Gerry, I'm sorry but your criticism is not valid.  iClone 7 added many rendering features plus the iRay plugin.  I don't feel RL is forgetting about it's long-time loyal users at all.  Additionally you may not be aware, but both Unreal and Unity are far more than engines for making games.  In the past few years both have invested heavily in making there engines powerful filmmaking too.  Unreal specifically developed Unreal Studio, then rolled all those features into Unreal Engine.  The Mandalorian is actually made using Unreal, so it's definitely not just for games.  I understand that you may not want to invest the energy into learning other software, but no one piece of software does everything, nor should it.  Right now any 3D filmmaker worth his salt should know Photoshop, Premiere/FCP/HitFilm, Blender, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter/Designer, zBrush, After Effects, Audition OR programs that are their equivalent.  At the end of the day, Character Creator and iClone are good at what they do best, but there should never be a day that it's the only software you use.  Not if you want the best quality.  When it come to realtime render engines, you need to learn either Unreal or Unity if you want results that are at that level.  Personally I'm a Unity user, but with this new development I can choose to gripe or I can download Unreal for free and add another powerful tool to my skill set.

Disney uses Epic's Unreal Engine to render The Mandalorian