What speaks against having an auto quadrangulation that has a nice poly flow? I'm sure this will be a killer feature when done right. I could imagine something like a drawing mode, where you roughly place areas that act as poles (e.g. knees, top head, knuckles) in one color, areas for cylindrical shapes in another color (depends on what info 3DC needs). So the automatic know where it has to place rings of polys (around the poles) etc. And maybe a line for general flow orientation (e.g. draw at the back of the character from the back of the head down the spine into two lines down the legs).
mike