I don't feel this was too informative. I would have liked a comparison of clean installs of Leopard and Snow Leopard to compare the speeds and disk footprint, as well as just an upgrade. I'm also disappointed Apple didn't update the Finder.
Apple has been known to follow the "first make it work" rule with all their software. I guess Finder is no exception.
(As always, I'll continue to use the commandline for most of my file management tasks. I'm a big fan of the Konqueror way of file management (although I don't use KDE any more), so you can probably guess how constrained I feel when I use Finder.)