I’ve yet to drive a CX but having poked around and fiddled with a few, everything I’ve seen is as least as nice and in most cases better than my trad. I won’t need to drive it to know it will drive nicer, it can hardly be worse!
My 4/4 is exactly the car I wanted it to be so for the meantime, I’ve no desire to change it. It’s true that I’d be losing out on some of the charm of the trad should I change but there are many attributes of the CX to compensate if that day ever comes.
Price wise, I don’t think they’re too bad all things considered and depreciation is still slower than most other cars in the same price bracket.