Storage management on iPhone with iTunes Match, iCloud and Photo Stream

I had a 32GB iPhone 4, but my company got me a 16GB iPhone 5 (not complaining). However, now an occasional problem on my 4 is a showstopper on my 5: My various cloud services don't manage available space very well.
Several times over the past few weeks I have been unable to take more photographs because there was no space available. I've also been unable to update apps for the same reason.
I had imagined that iOS would cast out the least-played songs and maybe played with which photos are stored automatically when space was at a premium, but that does not appear to be the case.
I am thinking of getting a new iPad now that LTE is in my area (my current iPad is wifi only), and imagined that iCloud and its various services would enable me to manage with 16GB nicely. That does not appear to be the case.
Is this a common experience, or am I doing something wrong?

I noticed the exact same thing happening to me last night. However appears to have removed all the music in every playlist local to my phone and I've had to go redownload them from iCloud. Has anyone figured out why this happens?? I havent touched or synced with my computer in a while so I can't figure out the cause.

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