Bryce 5.5: The Right Tool for the Job?

I am greeted by the familiar Bryce landscape creation screen. Everything seems to be in the same place as I remember from version 2, the camera navigation buttons on the left, the small render preview in the upper left, the Create objects and lights up top, along with the object Edit and Sky & Fog menus, the view buttons on the right and the wireframe creation area in the center scene. There's an addition of a Time bar under the wireframe window, a tree shape and what looks like a director's chair under the view presets. I can only assume this is for making fly-through animations. There's also a large "S"-marked ball in the top center that will launch Daz Studio.

I will start with making a simple landscape scene.