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I think that you can have the same kind of result with the:

NFFD, deformation cage (you can also edit it).

The trick : if you move twice a single point of the NFFD then go back the "cage" is preserved and then you can act directly with the standard tools (stretch, scale, rotate) no need to launch the nffd each time. (The DG must be switch ON)