Quote: And the clueless buyers who can't focus or post-process their shots will convince themselves that their jpegs are much sharper than before and will argue so on many a thread
Is that what the D800e users are doing? The point has been made that without the two second delay to reduce mirror shake and a tripod you aren't going to see any difference has been thoroughly made and emphasized. I think you may be denigrating "clueless buyers" without justification. For myself, I'm planning to have both a II and a IIs, both to be used appropriately, with my K5 as the back up body. I'd assume a lot of folks ordering the IIs are keeping their K-5s for portrait and general work. I'd find it odd that there would be people buying this camera that are more clueless than me, but hey...maybe you're right.
I really don't think the K-5 IIs is going to be some kind of status camera that people buy to impress their rich uncle. I'm guessing the people who order it, will know how to use it.