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I kind of agree. But generally I find it easier a lot of the time to sharpen and then deal with the noise in the sky and water than to be really careful about where I sharpen I find Dfine very good for that. So a bit of noise I don't mind. It's when the sharpening starts to do odd things with out of focus highlights that I have a big problem, because that's much harder to fix.I've been trying out X-Transformer as well. You can get more detail, but the sharpening is to much for me even at low setting. It gets very noisy in the out of focus areas. It wouldn't really show in print, so not a massive thing and I'd use it for that. I won't use it for anything web sized, as it doesn't make a great deal of difference at that size and just makes the workflow longer. I won't use it for high ISO images either. The sharpening really doesn't work well there, so you end up controlling that in LR anyway. I find LR noise processing better as well. It's still only at beta stage though!
If I shot landscapes I'd likely use it more. The detail it brings out is better and from what I have seen the lens correction is really good as well. I've seen examples of it improving corners quite a lot.