I'm looking at both of these as well - seems the takeaway is to try and look through both of them side by side, on tripods, at low light and let your eyes make the decision.
You can make a good argument either way. I personally like things to be simple, clean and I don't do a lot of long distance range work, so I don't need exposed turrets. If you want to do some long range shooting/hunting exposed turrets are probably the way to go.