Yes, the comparative advantages of AA filter or not is fairly well documented.
Your last two points are trade offs. That is, the deficiency of the Canon sensor, which extends beyond just the DR disadvantage to the Sony sensor, was accepted in trade for more pixels. In some situations that is a good trade and other not. Both the pixel advantage and DR and Noise disadvantages are not large, but reasonable. However, it really depends on what type of images you make, under what conditions, and what output size and media are targeted as to whether the trade is good (all else being equal).
Given the list of Canon cameras you rolled off though, I more inclined to believe your choice was based on the inability to overcome inertia than any actual comparison between available alternatives. Don't get me wrong, we all have that same consideration when selecting our NEXT camera body as opposed to our FIRST camera body. But, it would be less disingenuous to have just said, I wanted the highest resolution Canon camera I could buy because it meets my needs.
A short while ago someone on this forum asked for thoughts and advice regarding the choice between a 5ds and a 5dsr; in starting this thread I’d simply intended to illustrate my own personal experience of these two almost identical
Canon cameras as it might help someone else since the previous thread had been locked.
I’m quite bemused and disappointed by you deciding to morph it into another “lets slag off Canon” soap box… as well as rudely questioning my own ability to make considered decisions about my choice of camera equipment.
To use your terminology, let me be "clear and factual" about my "decisions and motivations”…. as you later suggested.
I’ve attached another image for you to look at. It is an untouched (apart from the numberplate) “snap” I took with my 1DX last year on returning to my car after photographing a friend throwing an awesome racing motorcycle into some corners on a road that passes my home as it makes it’s way across the moors of Derbyshire, UK. The sky, the heather, the reflections in the car all looked too pretty to be missed.
I haven’t uploaded this image to demonstrate the dynamic range, sharpness or indeed any aspect of the 1DX whatsoever. No, I’ve uploaded it because I’d recently bought the car for £39K from my local BMW garage with the excess profit I made with my “DR disadvantaged" Canon camera choices and my “inability to overcome inertia”. My account advised my to spend some cash so I bought a coupé, cute isn’t it? I could of bought a PhaseOne back but that would have been an unnecessary millstone and nothing like as much fun as whooshing about the country lanes in a 4 Series.
I’m lucky (or is it astute?) enough to make my entire living from taking photographs with equipment I’ve carefully chosen; I don’t care if it’s a box brownie, a Hasselblad or a pin-hole camera if it gets the job done to the required standard, puts food on my table and gives me the life I want.
To go back to your obsession, todays increasing dynamic range
is a godsend to weekend warriors, but it doesn’t make up for skill and craft when a jobs to be done properly. I have no interest in comparing spec sheets with Sony, Nikon or otherwise, why should I? - it’s boring and life is too short… take photographs instead, chill out and enjoy life my friend.
Is that "less disingenuous" enough for you?
Carl