Thats true, but as I said chamfering edges on a complex model is a pain and very time consuming. I cant believe that maya does not have this feature as a lot of the work I see has hard edges while still being smoothed (possibly due to a lot of small chamfers!!). Hopefully, with the aquisition of maya by discreet, we will see some improvements that will accomodate this and other features.
Somedays you are the pigeon, and others, the statue