"I think the daz males are pretty boys that should be in some boy band and lack the mophs to make them more rugged."

The only problem the DAZ males have are their comic book style default proportions because Poser (still) lacks proper single axis scaling.

Took me a lot of work to re-rig my 3rd Generation based figures to get more realistic proportions.

Other than that, it just depends on what you do with the mesh.

IMO, at least with the 3rd Generation DAZ mesh, there's absolutely no limit in the looks you can achieve.