So where exactly is it more powerful?
You can load a pre-made model into Unity as well and manipulate its vertices.
You get a list of vertices with following command:

Code:
Mesh mesh = GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh;
Vector3[] vertices = mesh.vertices;


You can use mesh.vertices to read OR to store vertices.

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