mrsgator88 wrote:

Back in the day, photographers would extol (or decry) the virtues (or vices)
of the various films on the market. In reading the posts here, I haven't
noticed any discussion about the subjective quality of the various sensors

Oh but there are.
You only have to look at the Foveon vs Bayer religious wars here ;-)

And in addition there are a several of flavours of Bayer mask filter

Classical additive RG,GB
Custom additive RG,EB (SonY)
(where E is a different shade of green/cyan they call emerald)

Classical subtractive CM,YG (some video sensors)

And lastly Fuji's interpolated sensor installed with pixels running
diagonally and interpolated.

The distinction is more that very few amateur photographers know which
type of sensor mask is included in their camera. And so many other
factors affect image quality that it is largely irrelevant.

Regards,
Martin Brown