Nope your not asking too much...but this subject it is clearly affected by the the law of supply and demand. The general public thinks that the greater MP and now zooms equals a better camera....it is outrageous to see some price tags of many P&S´s and how poorly they perform.

The ISO race in SLR´s is taking up speed lately...I assume this race will eventually catch up the P&S market, which BTW it is changing since the hot thing this days are the ultra-super-mega compact SLR´s

Uninformed buyers will always look at the bigger numbers in the specs... which we know bigger does not mean better in this world of photography.