I agree with this. I had a blast with rF1 but never tried rF2, and by the looks of this situation I won't be doing it. I've found that AC is the most balanced of the current gen sims, and the one that offers the best feel with a pad, I was never able to achieve good feel with pCARS and I'm really looking forward to see what SMS does with its sequel, we might see a "GTR2 effect" like Ryzza said above.
Kunos seems to have lost it a little bit, specially after the console release which has been, and still is, very troubled. Another downside of AC is the online part (for PC), which pCARS pulled it really nicely, whereas in AC you have to set up a server on another PC and it's complete pain in the a**, but you get some sort of private lobbies... I guess.
Anyways, landscape looks nice for PC racing sims with FM7 and pCARS2 on the near future. I just hope that FM doesn't get a troubled start like FH did...