Color settings on camera

I've been doing a lot of playing with my new Canon XL2 and am starting to wonder if messing with the on camera settings is really worth the time? I mean, with the white balance set properly and lighting set, the other options seem to be a waste of time. For one thing, you can't see the colors well enough on the small view finder to make great judgement calls, the footage that you import is going to eventually go to color anyway to be checked and possibly corrected, and its very easy to put a little too much of something in the original that you might wish you'd have caught before pressing record.
So, how many of you spend the time to setup the camera during filming? Is this a skill I should really perfect, or am I ok leaving it set to auto for those types of things and just worrying with the white balance and light settings?
Thanks,
glenn

Let me get this straight, you are presenting an argument against learning your toolset? You are throwing out craft and knowledge for an auto-everthing minidv camera and a piece of software? Is this an argument against professional Digital Imaging Technicians and everything they bring to the plate in a digital cinema production? Is this an argument against professional video operators and everything they bring to live/live to tape multicam productions?
Briefly, there is merit in recording almost a raw, unprocessed image such as that from the Thomson Viper but at the same time, the Canon XL2 is an 8bit minidv camera; think highly compressed, narrow dynamic range video format. I should think that rather than process the heck out that imaging in post, that you'd want to learn to paint your imaging in camera or at least through careful charting and camera control know that you're maximizing as much dynamic range as you can get from such a wretched video format. Yeah, no way can Mr. Auto do that.
You are correct that the piddly lcd viewfinders on these "prosumer" cameras leave a lot to be desired which is why on set monitoring is of the utmost importance. If you're employing a lighting rig than you sure as h3ll should also be employing on set monitoring.
You are saying it's a waste of time to learn how to control gamma, the knee points, detail, master ped, and other arcane things such as chroma levels, hue, color matrices and iris and just leave it all in automatic, to let the visions of some nameless engineers in Japan determine how we should view things??
I'm sorry to be blunt but I don't see how this can be taken seriously. I would go broke if I took this point of view in my present and future employment.
Z

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