I suppose I have listed many shortcomings of MC DAQ and Universal Libraries since my point of view is LabVIEW and non-National Instruments can and would do the job. But in fact, MC with its own software, DAQami and DASYLab, and DAQ hardware will be useful to many engineers and technicians.
I have not had the chance to use DAQAmi, but it appears to be a very powerful software.