[pxl8]

I think the answer is each to his or her own. I shoot raw and post process all my shots to some degree. I very rarely do selective work, usually just exposure, colour balance, saturation, etc. and always some sharpening for web images.

The really isn't any such thing as an unprocessed image. When I used to shoot film slr I had to decide between B+W, colour neg, or colour slide. Add to that different brands giving different results and (as I worked in an E6 lab) being able to control the processing to the nth degree there was still tweaking after the shutter was released. Digital just gives more (and different) choices.

My usual workflow (for the web) is something like this:

Open raw in Canon DPP, fix exp, contrast, etc. Export as max. quality jpg.
Open in Paint Shop Pro
Re-size to 800px on longest side.
Duplicate layer, change blend mode to soft light, set layer alpha to 50%. Gaussin blur layer with a radius of 6px. Curves tool using a preset to lighten shadow areas.
On bottom layer run either focus magic at 1px, high pass sharpen (1px, 50%, hard light), or USM (1px, 50%, 5 clipping) depending on the type of image and detail.
Flatten layers, paste sig into corner.
Save as jpeg using optmizer tool to control quality/size ratio.