i never found V3 manly, but i definitely found V2 hotter than V3 out of the box too lol... so maybe history is just repeating itself.

i think feminine features have to be exaggerated slightly to get that "hot girl" look, and so one could argue that since V4 is decidedly unexaggerated in almost every way (except her GIANT bug eyes) she doesn't come across that way.  i mean if you load her up and look at her from the side she has a massive bull neck lol

from some of the renders ive seen though i can at least say many characters look VERY different from the parent V4, in other words it does indeed look like you can remove the V4 from V4 if you work hard enough- and that makes her worth it right there.  most V3 characters still had traces of V3, no matter how hard you tried to make her look like someone else.