Let's see. You join PentaxForums. Then you ask the members, the overwhelming majority of whom own and use Pentax cameras, whether they think other brands are better than what they own and use. Then you compare more expensive cameras of other brands with Pentax machines. And you wonder why some of the reactions are hostile? Really?
Let me tell my story. I started shooting film long, long ago; and I moved to electric cams (analog and then digital) during the last generation. Over the decades I have owned and used many brands of fine cameras: German Kodak, Olympus, Minolta, Yashica, Graflex, Canon, Fujica, Sony, others. But never a Pentax.
When I analyzed the offerings before buying my first dSLR a couple years ago, I was biased towards Olympus, then Sony/Minolta. But I've trained as a systems analyst; I gathered data, crunched numbers, built spreadsheets, did cost-benefit analyses. I read the technical reviews of numerous dSLRs. But I also read the user ratings, and the complaints; and I cross-charted price vs features vs bitches-and-gripes. I noted which brands and models got the most complaints, the most comments about needing to upgrade soon. I looked at the data agnostically, and I chose Pentax. Pentax had the lenses I wanted, and a body (K20D) that looked like it would keep me happy longest.
Tech evaluations are not conclusive. I've seen many technological products that get rave lab reviews, yet fail in real-world reviews, the user ratings, the gripe lists. Remember the order of importance of the factors that make a good photo:
1) the photographer
2) the subject
3) the light
4) the lens
5) the camera
Cameras are the LEAST important, LEAST significant of the component elements of photography. A camera is a box upon which to hang lenses, no more, no less.