TDR
The Nikon FM2n feels so ´ríght´ you wrote.
Well, I had an FM and also an FM2n because of one thing: higher flash synch than the F or F2. These bodies were run alongside each other, the FM2 replacing the FM when it became available. Well, if ever one of them felt ´right´ it was one or the other of the two first runners - the F or F2. Beside them, the cheapo FM and FM2 felt like the amateur machines that they truly were/are.
But why be surprised? Nikon never presented them as anything else but budget bodies.
The F4s is but a memory now - not one I return to very much for the reasons given in the previous post!
Actually, if I have a beef with Nikon, it´s this: when the F4 came out, they stopped advertising the F3 totally. I bought the blessed F4 because I thought that the F3 had been discontinued. It was ages until I found out otherwise, and had I known, I´d never haver gone for the F4 in the first place. Strange marketing policy, that.
Rob C