It is strange that the JPG's looked sharper than the RAW's at equivalent ISO. And in terms of noise, there really wasn't much of a difference between JPG and RAW. Could Fuji be applying noise reduction to the RAW files, but not sharpening?
I don't think Steve slammed the auto focus speed of the XPro1. He said that it was plenty fast in good light, but in low light, he had trouble locking auto focus. That's more or less a true statement, and also applicable for most cameras anyway.
Carl, your RPP processed sample looks exponentially sharper than the DPR one!!! So either DPR is doing something wrong, or the beta ACR is not quite there yet.