Now she is aggressively fluffy. Almost early millenial eroge character level.
Only pointy hair tufts helps with making any random viewing angle look more coherent. An extra layer of hair makes very low viewing angles look tolerable. The outermost strands that exist mostly to define a silhouette look atrocious from above and below, but if they're disconnected and floating I can figure out a way to move and hide them later.
I also studied some of the anime figurines at my house and noticed that most of them have hair tufts with a triangular cross section, such that the front of the tuft has a ridge. The ridge is always going down on the medial side, so that the more lateral tufts appear to layer over the more medial ones. For some reason I expected it to be the opposite. I'm not entirely sure of the reasons to do this, but it seems to help with lighting, and for me it solves the problem of having totally flat sides on extremely thick tufts.
These are my notes on the matter.