I  personally, do think that dynamic hair, with some correct shaders, looks better than Transmapped hair. I agree that making dynamic hair is difficult, I have never succeeded, but there are some great samples in the freestuff, so others have ( just look for adorana!)
There must be some tutorials here at rendo, have you tried them?

Good luck and don't give up.

Bopper.

edit: Almost the same answer as cage, not very helpfull perhaps, but encouraging.

-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?