Don’t loose your hopes so fast. The new hair system is in its infancy and will only get better. From what I have heard it is already quite powerful and people are doing some amazing stuff with it.The logical step forward for us will be to develop node groups for the new hair system.
Aside from that, don’t know if it fits here, but I had made stylized hair using Geometry nodes for a recent project https://i.imgur.com/pAD0J2T