Customized User Profile Management?

Hello WP world,

Before I go ahead and start purchasing a WP theme and integrating BBpress, I have a few questions and hoping someone can help me.

I’m having a hard time finding out if it’s possible to modify user profiles / user registration methods. I’ve come across a couple plugins but they are out of date and seem to be very buggy according to other users.

In the website I would like to create, I would like to be able to attain more information from registering users than the standard E-mail/Name setup. e.g. time zone & photo. From what I understand, it would appear that it requires some hacking to make this happen?

A mandatory and optional user input feature as well would be ideal, you know, like the red star that shows up when you register on certain sites. Would also like to give the user the ability to customize their profiles a bit, a background, photo albums, etc. Along with human verification.

From an admin standpoint, I would like be able to manage my registered users based on the specific information they provided when registering. Like a table that allows you to click the header and it allows you to organize it based on the information that they provided. Also, would like to be able to modify these user profiles manually, inputting my own data to be displayed on their profiles.

Is all of this possible to do in WP/BB?