Thanks to all who have responded and I look forward to more responses! I am fortunate to have a mentor in the area who has a RR and so I was able to see (and hold) one in person today. I definitely see what folks are talking about in terms of the "fiddly-ness", but the tradeoff in weight (or lack thereof, more accurately) is truly phenomenal and, by the account of my mentor and others, while the RR might fairly be considered "fiddly", you just get used to the intricacies of Richard's design, at which point all is good.

Heavily leaning toward the RR as I am scheduled to take a Intro to LF workshop with him this coming fall and would love to get everything from the proverbial horse's mouth.

Having said all the above, the Chamonix truly does look like a work of art and in my (albeit somewhat limited) research, I have never heard someone say anything even remotely negative about those cameras.

With all this talk of decline...its kinda easy to be fooled into thinking the opposite!

-Matt