I suppose that region render is needed for everyone (archiviz, animation, design, character etc). Hairs - good - for characters and grass very useful - but for me more important is UV Mapping (CUBE, sphere, cylidner and other) Third feature for me - rounded edges to safe geometry (count of poligons). More @Wikipedia
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