I agree with you totally. I find it a very polished package. The overall art design is very good, miles better than LFS's. The car drives very convincingly. Although the FF isn't quite the same as LFS, it's not the old ISI countersteer-spins-you-more kind of junk.
Bashing another game for no good reason isn't making LFS any better. If anything it makes the LFS community seem narrow minded, aggressively so.
If you read my post again you'll see that Im not a game basher nor a LFS fanboy.
Maybe we all have different taste in terms of "sims" but I'd rather do GT4 and up then the BMW challange. It simply doesn't feel right at all.
I do agree that everyone should DL it and make their own judgement. That's the whole point of opinions.