I think I disagree with your opinion. Raw images often look fantastic if they are captured properly (in focus, exposed correctly). I still work regularly with old film cameras, and the photos develop very very nicely without any digital alterations. When I shoot with my digital I usually save both RAW and JPEG formats so I have the extra raw data if I need it but if I've taken a good shot I minimize my digital alterations.

There are some additional tweaks that can be done to a "raw" format camera image that contains extra image data compared to a processed/jpeg type flatter image, but there's no reason they should look bad coming out of the camera. Maybe unbalanced white color values at most.