Hmmm, did I say that did I 
There's nothing wrong with the Due, it's just that IMO it could have been a lot better. They ignored most of the neat hardware the chip has, mostly I assume in favour of Mega shield compatibility, so we have a powerful ARM board that can flash 54 LEDs but cannot interface correctly to an SD card, external memory or Ethernet.
I think it could have kept Duemilanove/Uno shield compatibility and used the spare pins for more useful functions. But then I would think that because it's exactly what I've done with my latest Mega2560 design and plan to do with a SAM design soon
Rob