This is true, how perceptive.
The Droid is certainly capable of performing tasks, no one here has dissed it from that perspective.
However, as you stated, it is not nearly as elegant as the iPhone, which will, no doubt, continue to evolve and transform as well.
The Droid seems poised to succeed in taking a significant share from the WinMo platform, in time.
From the perspective of design and interface, though, I do feel that the Droid, in its present form, is a clunker.
Pure opinion - shared by many, power users as well as non-power users, who have actually used it side by side with the iPhone 3GS.
Go figure.