No hard feelings.
I do get it. IS is useful some of the time for all shooters with all lenses and all styles. Was only saying that if you are shooting a soccer match in daytime with a 500mm or 600mm lens, and you are doing the fast aperature/blurred bokeh thing, and you are shooting at a shutter speed in the multi-thousandths of a second, then you can live w/o IS. Previous reviews by Bryan even state he turns it off for outdoor daytime sports. Perhaps the very newest IS can now lend a tiny bit of aid even in these conditions.

But you are not often bringing a 600mm lens inside to shoot your family.

My point (which is far from proven fact) is that many, many people who own only a couple lenses will OFTEN bring the 24-70 inside to shoot. Indoors (not in a studio) you won't have great lighting, nor even a tripod.

If one HAD to have IS on ONLY one lens; EITHER the walking-around lens, OR else on the 600mm soccer lens, I think it would be most commonly appreciated on the walk-around.

But on the other hand, you in particular may be trying to shoot professional football at night, or lions at 5:45 in the morning, or any number of things that would benefit from IS.

Please let me re-phrase the entirety of my last 2 posts as simply "Dang, I do wish they'd have put IS on this new lens."