Toonish is okay, but not really what I'm going for. I like images like the one used for the Poser 12 splash screen. No way would anyone mistake it for a photograph. The hair is just real enough. It doesn't distract by looking fake. The image is romanticized, idealized, but not really toony.

And I have never found a Superfly material that makes Poser's dynamic hair look good. It doesn't exactly took realistic in Firefly, but you can get a glamorous, shampoo-ad look with it.

And actually...I am not that interested in getting the lighting correct. I just want it to look nice. I will often turn off shadows on certain things. Just as with a photograph, I might darker some parts of an image and brighten others. I don't want to duplicate reality, I want to improve on it. ;-)

Dunno if you've seen this thread, but Erogenesis posted in defense of Firefly a couple of years ago:

https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2936633

I like his crowd scenes. I sometimes do large crowd scenes, and even rendering in pieces and pasting them together in Photoshop...I can't imagine doing that in Superfly. Not until it gets a lot faster.