Really good example, thank you! I mostly do hard surface stuff, maybe there it's different. I will try both methods. Guess it also depends on what you're working on.
hehe and now comes me telling you that the lowpoly to highpoly is also a very valid approach. +1 to confusion :) but no it can actually work, it really depends on the style and the final product. We had productions where it was exactly like this due to budget constraints there was no time to retopo and set up bakes…