I never said organic meant character only but every example that keeps popping up shows nothing but characters, go look on the gaming section of the Zbrush site.
Exactly. Resistance to learning new things is probably one of the last things you want in this field. No one will tell you what you know is enough, if that's what you want to hear, you could always know more and the more you know the better perspective you have. You say you do hard-surface, but if you want normal map…