P&S - Faster lens or bigger sensor?

[CanNotYet]

Well, compared to your average P&S, they ARE more complex. I do not mind it, but there are people who do. And among these people are notably my wife and all my friends's wives (told you I was biased).
My wife actually prefer automode on our DSLR, as she hates lag and poor AF.

[DanielW]

The answer is: fast and accurate Autofocus, that is sensitive and do not hunt in bad light.
For a P&S, this will be the thing making or breaking the pictures.

It does make sense. Will pay more attention to that part of the reviews than I've been doing so far. Thanks!

But my (admittedly biased) view of wives in general, they value responsiveness, simplicity and end IQ.

Sounds like my wife, too, so now we have a little larger sample with less bias