Alright, I've lost the will to wade through all the comments. But I find it incredibly interesting that the argument is essentially thus:

"I think RTD did X because he wanted Y."

"You're right, but I hate RTD and I think he's doing Doctor Who wrong and if you agree with the canon RTD has presented, you're doing Doctor Who wrong, too."

"But...say for the sake of argument, we accept the actual show as canon.."

"No, WRONG. I hate RTD."

*boggle*

Oh, and I think it was a very interesting essay and you've brought up some good points that I'll be musing on. I'm interested to see where the show is going with all of this.