If I want to 'faff'... I shoot in FILM!!!!
The Electric-Picture Maker, is for 'fast' photos; all that automation to make it easy and convenient, and 'save' me messing; direct to digital out-put is then an extra easement that saves faff of scanning.
Hence, 99% of the time EPM is set to JPG... I likely wouldn't process a NEF any differently to how the j-peg programmers polled experts suggest very much any-how, and jpg still allows a lot of diddle-ability in post if I want, and NEF doesn't really offer an awful lot 'more' for the 'having' to open and export in post to get a JPG that can be 'shared' and generically viewed... I cant adjust the focus distance or lens with a slider, I cant adjust the shutter-speed or aperture with a slider, all I can really do is adjust the exposure brightness 'a little' and the thresholds/response curves in between.. so is it 'really' such a huge 'advantage' to make an 'oh-so' much 'better' photo?
The time spent in post, even if it's just a minute, to open, view, check, maybe adjust brightens/contrast and then export as transportable jpg, would probably be much better spent, and if multiplied by the number of shots taken, far more time, looking at the scene, and if control is to be applied, doing something to the scene, like move an unsightly ashtray, or clean a dirty table top, or shift a chair, pick up a day-glow crisp-packet or 'whatever', and that little attention to whats in-front of the camera, rather than whats in the camera, let alone what is after the camera, is far more likely to make far more difference to getting that 'better' shot, than any extra fiddle-ability I may get from shooting jpg over nef.....
There are very very few instances where I might actually exploit the small extra NEF may offer in post-process twiddle-ability..... and so most of the NEF files I have are from where the camera has been left in NEF or set to NEF by accident!.... and it IS an accident... honest! Though it is humorous when O/H grabs camera to take snap of dog or green-thing (something in the garden 'growing'), then starts moaning and ranting she cant see the pictures on her PC or get them to show up on farce-broke!
DSLR as a 'glorified' point and press? Absolutely! I did not buy the EPM with all that automation in it to make myself as much or more work as I did using my old clock-work Zenit film Camera! And if I want the all that 'control' or 'involvement'.... well, I can still slap a film in the Zenit... or the sigma, or the Ziess Ikonta, or or or.....!!!! A-N-D get even more of it... waiting till every-one gone to bed and messing with chemicals and day-light tanks, and washing up bowls!!!
And I am NOT an anti PP Luddite! I started digital processing photo's back in the mid 90's with what was then called a 'Digital-Dark-Room' rather than Photo-Shop or Post-Process package! Saves a lot of wasted paper and chemicals, this widgetal malarkey does... BUT, when it comes to the technology, I'm an engineer, and first rule, its NOT technology if it doesn't 'help' solve a problem... its just a gadget.
Using the automation an EPM offers, whether that's Auto-Focus, Auto-Exposure, or standardised JPG processing, or post-process adjustment... UNLESS its employed to solve a problem, and actually make life easier or better... it is NOT a useful technology, its a gadget,! And when that gadget is actually making problems and demanding effort and time, rather than saving it, its not even a gadget, its a problem!
And here in lies the grouch, all this potential 'technology', all the possible 'easement' it can offer, has made photography so undemanding, that the "The Go Manual, Shoot Raw" mantra, is so often applauded for little reason other than to make the photographer feel 'involved' and doing something worth-while, so much taken care of by the electronic 'easements', going manual, over-riding the easements is oh-so-often employed JUST to make the photographer feel they are taking part, doing something 'important' and achieving something that the camera wouldn't left to its own pre-programmed devices.... is 'anti-technology'.. shifting the photographers time and attention from looking through the camera, to looking AT the camera, and looking for everything to be achieved by prodding buttons!
So little of the job is in the camera to start with, the amount of influence that the equipment may contain over how good an image may be is so tiny, to start with...
Raw vs JPG?!? May as well try and argue whether self cancelling indicators on a car are best cancelled by hand, or left to the steering wheel! It's just so un-important in the bigger picture, it's just a non issue! Worry about where your steering the car, and whether there's any-one to indicate to, rather than whether the self-cancelling indicator is a 'problem' cancelling indicators for you when you might want them left on! Want to be a better driver? Watch the effin road! Want to be a better photographer? Look through the camera, not at it, worry about the scene, not the box!