You are almost 100% right, less the part I'm incorrect cause I'm concern about that the console will not give me a better mix. Assuming that I´ll have a good re-recording mixer around if I have to choose about features or time, I´ll go for time, no doubt.
The only thing is that I was expecting find something in our range and still have the enought time and I was thinking about not have to mix with pluggins for eq as Icon does, in my experience in mixing stage, so far I have felt the difference specially in the dialogs ( Usually I do the location recording as well ) but of course it's all about the art of the re-recording mixer, with that I agree 100%.
You guys have to excuse me cause I'm not familiar at all with the range of prices in LA, in Europe we can find in the range I was mentioning, mixing rooms with nice features ( and consoles ) but probably cause we have a small industry.