Did a decimate-seam-unwrap-bake and texture-paint to compare to vertex-painting. At a quarter million verts, vertex-painting was pretty responsive, but still not as responsive as texture-painting on a half-decent unwrap of a lower-poly model. (Thanks Grant.)
It’s like looking in a mirror! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed this. Good thing I tricked my wife into marrying me so long ago cause that poor old head hasn’t aged so well.