When all the applications are capable of fully doing the demosaic of the X-Trans, I expect there is going to be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. While the improvements will be visible to those viewing side-by-side comparisons at the pixel level, prints and web images will show little or no improvement.
The perfection-pursuing pixel-peepers are perhaps setting up unreasonable expectations. At normal sizes for viewing, the images presently are superb. Color bleed and "painterly" leaves indeed occurs, but once the image is printed or on the web, such detail will likely be too small to be resolved by our eyes. If viewed on a monitor set to 100 pixels per inch, and printed at that resolution, the print would be slightly larger than a 36×48 inch (91.4×122cm) print. Based upon a 72 pixel per inch monitor, the print would be 50×68 inches (127×172.7 cm). To make such a print would require the largest size photo printer. Viewed close up, the faults would be visible from close up, if you knew where to look. However, prints that large are viewed from a distance and said faults would be invisible beyond normal reading distance.
