HI! Collin,
I think, as usually humbly, that you are rushing things a little. Until not recently, DSLR was a privilege of rather few (perhaps professional) photogs. Now, with introduction of $1000 or below units it is becoming more affordable and way more people would buy those. After that, I think what would happen is some kind of feedback phase. Common gotchas, common routes for improvement, common software issues would be found, some of them fixed. In other words, new generation of affordable DSLRs would come out of current one. Then we could talk about your question. I think. Just MHO... Boris