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Well put. To me, the advantage, as I've stated before, is that I get to think B&W only when with this camera. Some days I only take this camera so it's like having B&W film loaded.I think the real issue is juice for the squeeze, and the manufacturers know it.
In my own case, having the Sony converted to Full Spectrum, gave me firstly an IR capable camera -- and at the time I was interested in false color IR. I did it, and pretty quickly got over it. So then I decided to dedicate the cam to B&W. I did that for a while, but found that the net gains over converting to mono in post, or (surprise) just making careful jpeg mono settings and using jpegs sooc for my normal color DSLR were so small as to be irrelevant. At least for me... So in the end, I traded the converted sony for a second color DSLR body (I am a native Nikon shooter) that I set up for dedicated B&W jpeg capture. I found that workflow preferable to dealing with on-the-lens filters or extensive WB and post processing to achieve the results I wanted.
To be clear, there were minute detail gains to be had out of the converted camera. But to my eyes they were small, and probably not all that visible in even a very large print. There were some very subtle tonal improvements, but again, so small as to not really make much difference in on-screen or print output. End of the day, I realized *I* was chasing my own holy grail of emulating 2-1/4" Tri-X exposed at 320 out of my digicams, and none, not even the M10 mono, nor exceptional post-processing on a Phase achromat really got me to that look. And for me, the sooc jpeg on the newer 50 (ish) MP sensors is pretty darn good --not Tri-X at 320 good, but very pleasing in their own right-- so that's where I sit today... But that's me, and I respect others needs will be different.