Quote - I think Tyler a vast improvement over Ryan, but I would have liked to  have seen a variety of texture maps for avaialble at launch.  I don't know why, but these SM people always lack facail/body hair options and that is irksome.

Ryan already has several texture variants. if you want ethnicities you can load these, and customize Tyler in the face room.  IIRC the Ryan textures are under Materials>People>Ryan. 

he has about as much body hair as the typical well groomed modern male.  if you want the 'Robin Williams' look,  it will look awful with that much hair coming from simply the texture.  hairy textures just look like garbage (sorry, but its true: hair is not flat and plastered to your body).
it could be done in the hair room if someone were devoted enough to body hair to spend many weeks setting it up and optimizing it -- but then people would complain about complexity, extra steps, extra render time and any potential limitations it would have.

if SM were to have devoted that much time/resources to body hair, you would basically have base Ryan with dynamic body hair right now, and nothing else.  i think that what they chose to spend their time/resources on was a wiser decision. you cant have everything, but what you do have is much improved FREE base figure that can now be further tweaked and altered by end users and merchants into variants that will please everyone.

cheers,
-Gabriel