Chiming in cause I'm not a butthurt party. @KarlP You should plan your model out so you don't end up with triangles or poles that negatively affect your smoothing. If you're done with your model and see a triangle but your sub-d looks perfect, then try and learn why it happened so you don't make that mistake again and move…
@ned_poreyra Nothing wrong with testing different workflows but it's important to focus on the results and evaluate whether or not a given strategy justifies the time spent. Work through each modeling strategy and pick the one that produces the best results for the least amount of time and effort spent. Here's a few more…