Mine can do more than point and click. I simply don't know how to use all that it does so I leave it on point and click. I've got that Canon PowerShot S2 something or other. The problem isn't the camera. The problem is the user.
My husband, God bless him, bought me another new camera last week thinking that maybe it would be able to do black backgrounds for me. I think he got tired of me asking him to come and look at photos of plants with black backgrounds on the computer monitor while whining about why I couldn't do that. It's an Olympus SP550 UZ that has some sort of image stabilization. He felt this camera might get me the close ups I've been wanting with black back grounds. Oops, another camera that will sit in the box or get passed down to a kid. I've been trying to tell him it's not the camera but the user.
I must admit I decided that if I could figure out how to use this PowerShot that I have (and I am plugging away at that- I did find that it had a built in flash recently), that I will buy something along the lines of the Nikon D80 plus an additional lens or two. I just can't condone shelling out that kind of money when I can't use all of the features on the camera I currently have. I'm working on it, I'm getting there slowly but surely. Maybe another year or two.
Oh ya, I've seen your photos. What are you talking about??? You take fine photos.