Getting rid of seams in Superfly is easy. Go to Figure - Skinning Method - and select Unimesh. Superfly will render the figure without the seams. It helps to have the updated EZ Skin to get the most out of textures in Superfly.
I'm not sure about upgrading. There are nagging things in P12 that have never been fixed. (Bullet Physics, for instance, just bogs my machine.) The upgrading of python rendered MANY very useful scripts obsolete. I understand the need for the upgrade, but it seems that vendors are creating for Studio, and Poser is getting left behind. Some of the props and figures available for Studio look really good . . . .
But I've been using Poser since P3, and I don't want to learn a whole new interface.