I admire photographers who can get the image they want in-camera; needing to work with RAW afterwards means you didn't achieve that. Ken Rockwell echoes the same sentiment: Who has time to muck around in RAW?.

Don't like the images coming out of your camera? It's probably your camera's settings to blame. I used to have a camera that produced grainy, dull images. one day, I tweaked the settings, and everything came to life. All I did was turn up the noise reduction and colours and darkened the shadows. This put more emphasis on the primary subject.