Indeed, I have the lens. And I do like the images it produces. But I quite understand your attitude!
Don't buy the 200mm f2L! IO don't own that -- could never afford it -- but I did play with a friend's, and it has a similar "feel" to the unshifted 24TSE when compared with the 200 2.8.
Another suggestion for you: do you use lightroom? If so set the so-called "clarity" slider to slightly negative settings. This will just slightly reduce local, but not global, contrast and might make the images "match" the 90 TSE more. There is probably a similar effect you can get with unsharp mask in photoshop; set the radius to 50, therehold to 0 and the amount to a negative amount: maybe -20 for a start.
Don't buy the 200mm f2L! IO don't own that -- could never afford it -- but I did play with a friend's, and it has a similar "feel" to the unshifted 24TSE when compared with the 200 2.8.
Another suggestion for you: do you use lightroom? If so set the so-called "clarity" slider to slightly negative settings. This will just slightly reduce local, but not global, contrast and might make the images "match" the 90 TSE more. There is probably a similar effect you can get with unsharp mask in photoshop; set the radius to 50, therehold to 0 and the amount to a negative amount: maybe -20 for a start.