Camera Raw 6 - Question

Question

I hear Camera Raw 6 is around the corner.  Cool!
I wonder whether any fundamental change has been made to change the way it responds to partial overexposure...  With my Canons at least, all the current versions of Camera Raw desaturate colors as soon as one of the color channels saturates.  Since we know that Canon's AA filter is bluish-green, this makes it highly likely the green and blue channels will saturate (max out) first before red.  As it should be, Camera Raw tries to recover at least some of the data using the red channel.
So, for example, if the green channel saturates, the subject will turn kind of gray instead of leaving the blue channel alone and having it be bright yellow.  Here's a graphic example:
A long time ago I recall corresponding with Thomas Knoll on this and I believe the thinking was that if the color can no longer be accurately determined because of one or two channel overexposure then the color will be desaturated so that it will not shift, and in a sense be made inaccurate.  I recall thinking that gray is a color too, but Camera Raw is what it is.
This philosophy may work fairly well for clouds in the sky, but it's not so good for some other things.  I think it also negatively impacts the way HDR images are assembled in many cases, as bright things end up with gray halos that don't mix well at all.
Any chance there's an option in ACR 6 to disable this desaturation behavior?  If not, could we please have one in the future?
Thanks.
-Noel

Answer 1

Thanks for your input, Curt, but I'm quite some distance beyond a basic understanding of the Bayer pattern at this point.
Re your comments on when new versions of Camera Raw are prepared, they are still adding features actively.  Camera Raw 6.1 specifically is the version I've heard is nearing release.
I'm hoping someone from Adobe with a significant depth of understanding of the innards of Camera Raw might comment on this.
-Noel