Hi BigTuna.
Welcome to our Mattress Forum! 
Thank you for your kind and heart felt words. I’m glad that TMU community and our expert members are a useful resource and can provide the answers and the information needed to make an educated and hopefully successful purchase. Also thanks for taking the time to share your findings and contribute to our forum … I appreciate it.
You are correct that even though one can find desirable qualities in most mattresses… without being provided with the information needed to identify any weak links in the mattress and make meaningful value/quality comparisons to other mattresses, most people would be making a blind purchase that may not fit well in their personal value equation and the parts that are most important to them.
For those interested in any of the options you mentioned there is more about Charles P Rogers on our forum in post #34 here (and the rest of the topic) and in this topic and this topic as well and a forum search on Charles P Rogers (you can just click the link) will bring up more comments and feedback about them as well. Although these specs may have changed, there are more complete specs for the Estate Powercore 9000 and some comments about it (and Charles P Rogers in general) in post #2 here .
I am glad that our forum is allowing for “quietly answering” many mattress related questions … we can certainly see the numbers growing.
Pheonix