Which Game to Get...

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I can't see them adding in hard-coded hex lines; there has been too much feedback saying that it removes the ability not to see them.  I had to take them off of the latest release, for the stock graphics. Doubtful that they would do a larger size of hexes -but it could be done -it wouldn't break what you are currently using unless hexsides were messed around with (like what had been done with Panzer Campaigns, and then the graphicswise also added in some new graphics lines ... but those guys have their own programmer so have an easier time doing that whenever they wanted to. I've worked with the PzC original stock, the next version, and the Gold version and that is what happened there -- it was the hexsides thing that messed up some existing mods -- I don't think that would happen in the JTS ones ... I guess it could -but it probably would have to be tied to some other change. 

What I am saying is - if that happens - you just change out the name of the file and you can have it usable still -- did that with the CWB update, and know it works ... eg -- where some file ends in a 50, you change it to a 25.   the 100 change it to 50... save a back up of the files that are being changed -and it really is trial and error.

Seriously, I would encourage you to learn to do the graphics. I think the only way that your main concerns can actually be overcome is to use the single map image.  I am not saying like what was done in CWB -well not exactly, but a single image would not have to strictly conform to a hexside as the way the maps are built. The downside to that is that I think anyone doing that would be limited to the ones already out there and those are pretty big file sizes as well (not sure if that is something on the artists' end with file size optimization or what -- have not played with it ... but know that it can be done. Actually it is this - that is where I come from when I talk about wanting to learn 3d graphics -because I think there is a lot of potential there.

Also for what it's worth, since it was brought up, sensitivity to copyright is a major issue when running a business, and not nearly so much when a lone modder does it. In those cases it is the modder who is responsible for the modder's work, but with a business, it ends up being the business. In the position that I am in, I have to be a steward for that sort of thing for them.