It's really not all too high of a mesh in the hands.  You are right though, it could have been probably obtomized better around the bend areas.  Up close though, it doesn't seem all that high and it does hold a texture well.
 
115k polys is still very moderate for Poser, it doesn't effect load time at all
I've seen some figures load up that are 4x that resolution and still load fast.
and I've got a pretty old and slow machine.

I've been working in a cave for months.  I had no idea you guys were working on figure(s) too.

I put together about a dozen varied figures this year, but none of them receive the kind of dogma that comes with the human female.  Eva probably took about 9 months time (gestation?) but that was a very hard, condensed, 9 let me tell ya.  I'm sure it could have been worked on for 9 more but there comes a time when you just have to say "done" ya know?