I haven't done much sub-d lately so I decided I would practice this workflow tonight: Booleans are indeed awesome :D The damn cleanup still takes forever, I couldn't figure out how you boolean'ed in support loops as you mentioned, Perna, so definitely elaborate on that in your guide.
I think for personal art this is a good policy, but for studio production it falls apart. Really it should be "that any artist can make any changes requested in a reasonable amount of time" because quite often someone else will work on an asset you made, either because you're working on something else, you've left the…