Thanks again everyone for very helpful input. I'm not entirely sold on LF, so this is all valuable insight!
Big prints is exactly what I would be looking to do. I have a very particular direction with full-length glamour I'm going for, which would require the choice to make much larger prints than mentioned. Another is having the access to shallow DOF, and achieving gorgeous bokeh in background - though both are quite possible with the Mamiya C220 I use.
Movements might be useful for some shots, but from my understanding shooting people with a non-TLR LF camera when there's any chance of subject movement is iffy at best. The descriptions I've found here of using small apertures with deep DOF and the acompanying (massive) continuous light sources, or large apertures by pre-focusing on strings where the subject is placed at the last moment, are not exactly suitable for the type of shooting I do. I'm not talking about spray and pray (for the right shot), but posed but dynamic poses. TLR would be perfect for this reason - and the reason why Mr Gowland created his cameras -, although I would lose movements.
Having the choice for tight facials is mainly a nice-to-have feature, but the more I think about it, I could just stick with MF for those, as they are not part of the very particular direction mentioned
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