@spotsby, I can tell you, you're fighting a losing battle in the comments.
I liked your story, and -- to me -- it was cogent to the conversation, in trying to get certain other posters to take the lack of a mouse seriously enough to think outside of the box in responding rather than posting feedback links, and raising awareness of "oh yeah, what about the mouse, maybe *I* should click on the 30 feedback links posted, too!"
You're a level 1, which means you don't come on the forums often, so when there are "discussions" about "missing" features, the board gets pretty riled up, a lot of "jailbreaking" talk crops up, etc. etc., and the more frequent contributors start to get a little snarky, because it gets very, very old. Also, the users that don't use or need the features that are causing the riling tend to make matters worse by contributing, for whatever reason. Some who post the feedback links are sincerely trying to help, and many level 1's actually DO click on the links, not having known that it's the proper line to letting Apple know what they want. Hence the "helpful" notes next to the posters, and their "level" in the forums. Lots of times, this looks like a snarky conversation-ender, but it isn't.
Ultimately, your choice of going a different route than the Pro despite being a big fan of the Pro, serves as a 1,000 posts to the feedback link, and to that point, the market will determine how important it is or isn't that the iPad support will support a mouse. If the Samsung sales outpace the Pro sales, the Apple team will find out why, and if it's due -- in any large part -- to no mouse support, they will add it, just as they've done with other "they will never add that" features, that you hear in some forums.
Sometimes, there ARE large enough threads to get noticed by the WSJ and such, which I'm sure gets Apple's attention, but I don't think this is one of them.
However, having said that, I really DO want to get the Pro, much like you did, and I'm more than willing to learn how to do some of the more advanced functions I do without a mouse, so my quasi-challenge I mentioned earlier would be VERY helpful if it's addressed, to get more of a technical-type feedback rather than going a jailbreaking route.