Alan:
I think you're becoming (as Bryce said) overly argumentative. I don't like to start another heated discussion with you, knowing from past experience it's unlikely to bring fruit, so let's both stop now.
I'd just like to point out, for the sake of others who might get a wrong idea from you, that Illustrator has no "warping nodes". It has a "warp effect" which, like most things in Illustrator, is done through a clunky dialog and affects an object as a whole. From the viewpoint of a user, there's almost nothing in common between this effect and Inkscape's node sculpting which is fully interactive, on-canvas, and works on node selection. It's a different process altogether. You seem to be judging (as you too often do) only from screenshots, like this one which indeed shows lots of "warping":
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-nodesculpting.png
I think it would benefit everyone if you'd try to actually _use_ the features that you're going to talk about.