D5200 - another Jurassic Park dino from Nikon

Indeed you are over zealous in trying to make your point as nobody forces you where or how to spend your money. People don't buy a specific model because of the feel or its too heavy. So its not unusual to not buy a certain model beause of one specific item.

read bythom, it appears nikon has some problems.

http://www.bythom.com/

'but that misses the point: they should be dominating the camera market. It's their marketing inefficiency and lack of strong product messaging that's not allowing them to do that."