What additional features does he like and how do they work?

He enjoys that you can create any text into 3D at his command. He also likes the various things he can do with the 3D text. The base on how to start making animated text is going to repousse and then going to text layer. From there, after choosing the shapes and colors of the text, you can then go onto the shadow of the text to make it that more realistic. Then you can go to the ground plane and angle the text to match the picture your editing. And finallygo to ground plane shadow catcher and you will be able to create the shadow of the 3D text. Go to scene settings and then quality you will be able to see a draft of the shadow, and when your pleased with you work, you can go to the final mode.