interesting and welcome and good, but without dynamic hair, what's the point for animation?

Can anyone summarize the state of D|S (assuming money is not the issue -- getting all plugins). I am not baiting, i really want to know. I never considered D|S but now I am in love with V4, so.............

Painting of morphs
Toon render
HDRI/AO/Raytrace or some form of GI/radiosity?
Animation tools compared to Poser's
Dynamic Hair -- no
Dynamic cloth -- announced
LipSynch -- i assume good, given their own app for it, right?
Procedural shaders
Procedural skin shaders
Render out to image sequence, lossless
Anything else you think of....

Thanks,
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