Anyone else excited with 4.5 Update?

Foliage is the one thing stopping me moving to UE4. There just seems no good indie engine for outdoor games in nature:

CryEngine - beautiful vegetation but support/docs/workflows/bugs are chaos. The whole thing feels a trap.
Unigine - relatively expensive, apparently average performance and poor editor, no community.
Unity - price ok but poor performance and vegetation nothing impressive.
Frostbite and Snowdrop - very nice vegetation but not publicly available.
UE4 - nice editor and workflows, good docs, tuts, community, support but vegetation nowhere near CryEngine’s from 7 years ago.

Surely that’s incentive? People spend their lives in cities and indoors now, at least let them enjoy nature virtually.