Two points:
1. I cannot see this as appealing to the vast majority of people who buy new Colt SAA's as they are usually traditionalists.
2. The New Frontier was a fine gun but falls short in the market for a hunting gun to a more rugged Ruger or Freedom Arms chambered for more pressure.
That's my opinion & worth what you were charged. 
Fox Creek Kid:
You have made two excellent and well-founded comments, however, here are two counterpoints:
Skeeter Skelton and John Taffin both have indicated that the Colt New Frontier in .44 Special caliber is the ideal single action if you reload.
John Taffin: "The Colt New Frontiers maintain the beautiful looks, feel, and balance of the Colt Single Action Army with the added advantage of adjustable sights. It is a rare fixed sighted sixgun that shoots to point of aim and when it does it is normally for only one load. The New Frontier's sights allows any reasonable load to be dialed in."
"Until the advent of the Colt Anaconda in both .44 Magnum and .45 Colt, the New Frontier remained the finest hunting sixgun ever offered by Hartford. Especially in the 7 1/2" barrel length and in calibers .44 Special and .45 Colt, the New Frontier will get the job done up close on deer and black bear sized game. They are not Magnums, but the .45 Colt will easily handle loads using 260 grain Keith style bullets at 1000- 1150 feet per second, while the .44 Special uses the same style bullets of 250 grains of 1200-1250 feet per second."
Skeeter Skelton: "A big, holstered sixgun is no longer part of my work, but when I get the chance, I roam in the brush country where a rattler, a whitetail buck, or a javelina might join me at any moment. I have a .44 Magnum, but my .44 Special seems more relaxed - and prettier. Buying a Colt New Frontier Model, with its beautiful blue and old style, mottled, casehardened colors took me back 15 years."
"This finely fitted single action suits me well, and is the epitome of the forty-fours I dreamed of for fruitless years. At $150, it seems at first a little overpriced. But then - I once spent more." - August 1966
This is my own personal opinion: One of my favorite single actions is a Ruger Super Blackhawk that I have had for almost forty years. It is truly a great revolver but it is just different than carrying and shooting a Colt. Even with less power, to me, it just seems more refined to holster a Colt.
Lastly, John Taffin summarized the mystique of a Colt in his book,
Single Action Sixguns. This reinforces your first point about traditional Colt SAA's but I think it still applies to the Colt New Frontier SAA in comparison to other non-Colt single actions:
"Pick up a large seashell and hear the ocean; pick up a single action and hear and feel history. Just holding an old Colt single action conjures up visions of the Earps and Doc Holliday at the O.K. Corral, Theodore Roosevelt in the Dakotas, and Lt. George Patton with Black Jack Pershing in Mexico. We can hear bugles in the afternoon, smell bacon and beans cooking over a campfire, feel the dust from the hooves of a thousand cattle, and taste steak and a big slab of apple pie washed down with hot coffee at the Irma Hotel. A sixth sense takes over and Matt Dillon, Paladin, Rooster Cogburn, all become real."
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