Hi Frenchy,
Well, yes. The SubDivClassic is a way to develop a starting "Cage" in MoI. With a single catmull clark, notice the points are active. You can also manipulate those faces.
Basically, in old school, the program always started with a box and did that, and appied some amount of "Smoothing" to the cage. Programs like "Hexagon" started to do this in "Real time", so you worked on the smoothed object.
I would imagine someone could combine this in the node editor and basically create that workflow.
Max's SsPlit and Bridge are supplemental to the cage, for granular dicing...
