Should I See 2012 Process Image Quality Improvements?  Plus Minor Display Buglet.

Having played around with the Camera Raw 6.7 Release Candidate, and switching back and forth between the 2010 and 2012 processes (the latter only offering limited main panel adjustments), I'm left to wonder...
Question:
I really didn't see any discernable differences in Image Quality between 2010 and 2012.
Should I have expected any?  If so, are there special places I should look? 
Or is 2012 just all about control simplification, which doesn't apply to ACR 6.7?  Keep in mind I don't use LR so I don't know what that simplification might be; I'm just going on what I heard.
The CA correction improvements appear to apply equally to 2010 and 2012 processes.
Buglet:
The one other thing I noted was that when you hover over the little warning icon on the image it puts up the message "Update to Current Process (2010)", which is a bit wrong given that it's actually a downdate to an older process.  Maybe the wording should be different if it's the 2012 process?  Something like "Change to Process (2010)"?
-Noel

Robin, Adobe adds functionality to Camera Raw in each new major Photoshop release.  PV2012 is likely going to be touted as a new Photoshop CS6 feature.
I'm sure their Marketeers believe that if the team made Process 2012 fully available and controllable in Camera Raw 6 for Photoshop CS5 that some people would avoid buying Photoshop CS6.
On the other hand, they couldn't very well just leave the new release of Lightroom completely incompatible with the latest version of Photoshop...
What they've done makes them compatible because if you set a bunch of controls in Lightroom, then try to open the image in Photoshop CS5, you'll find that it will generate the same result.  If they didn't add at least this much PV2012 support then they'd be getting bona fide complaints from Lightroom users that the new version isn't compatible with any version of Photoshop - which I guess is a major selling feature.
Seems more easily solved by just waiting until Photoshop CS6 is released, but I suppose this decouples the two just enough, and allows Adobe not to miss out on all the Lightroom sales.
A parting observation:  Camera Raw 6.7 isn't actually released, so the majority of Photoshop users know nothing about it whatsoever.  But a Lightroom user has the option of upgrading to 6.7 RC to solve his "incompatibility" problem.  I wonder if Camera Raw 6.7 is actually going to release before Photoshop CS6... 
-Noel

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