Its a funny camera and a funnier reaction from the masses. It runs the gamut from total unconditional love, to love but wouldn't mind if they made a couple of changes, to like it but really wish they'd make some changes, to annoying to the point that the liking it is diminished, to those who just flat out hate it. I'm in the "love it but wouldn't mind if they made a couple of changes" group, but I still love it even without the changes. It was a steeper learning curve than any other modern camera I've used, but we're talking a few days instead of a few hours - nothing fatal. The only thing that really annoys me about it anymore (and only after I've shot with something else that REMINDS me to be annoyed) is the inability to move between auto ISO and a manual ISO setting quickly. Its a real PIA and so oddly implemented I just don't get what they were thinking. After shooting with one of the new Olympus cams or any of the Panasonics I've had or the GRD3, I just have to scratch my head. But in use, the high ISO is soooooo good, that's there's no real downside to just leaving it on auto ISO with a max of 3200, because it never really needs to go higher and the quality at 3200 is too good to give a second thought to. So its only annoying when I'm forced to think about it and compare it.
You coud conclude by reading about it that its annoying, but you really have to spend some time to know if its annoying for YOU, because for some it is but for lots its not and there's no real way to know until you check it out. I was prepared to love it and then prepared to hate it and after a couple of days of figuring it out, I love it. With very small reservations. But I've had it for more than four months now, so I don't think its just a matter of waiting for the new camera smell to wear off...
-Ray