Everything you say is pretty much on target, except the UI. I know my Sony camera, and every time I need to do a change in a setting, it's plainly horrible. Confusing naming, no feedback, sometimes you're thrown back to the main UI without explanation... and the bugs. For the longuest time the auto off was not working properly, which, on an hybrid camera leads to a very short battery life.

From what I've seen, it's not better on Canon and Nikon hardware.

They spent a lot of time refining the manual control, so it's very good and intuitive but then fails so bad at the electronic UI...