The nvidia pricing does matter because they control the market. And I doubt it would matter how much AMD could undercut because people would still buy from nvidia anyway, while AMD would take a loss on every card sold.It's through the roof. But it doesn't matter while AMD matches that instead of undercutting.
It is important when the UI of the control panel has most things people will use unified into a single application. I take you've never used the Adrenalin control panel, it does work very well.That's about as important as the graphics on the box it comes in. If it works, don't fix it.
Those features are there because, again nvidia controls the market, reviewers and nvidia buyers whine when AMD doesn't have a feature then still complain when it gets added because it isn't the nvidia proprietary feature.Someday it will dawn on you that, while AMD pretends those are useless features, they still implement them. Why would they do that, if there was virtually no demand?
The last time AMD innovated in the consumer GPU space was back when they introduced tessellation. And that was actually ATI.