Kevin, I trialed the SX60 with the same settings I use on the SX50, ie., "Program" mode, with a small focus area and auto ISO. I'm primarily a birder, not a photographer, and find that when switching from bins to camera, I don't have time to change settings. As it is, I miss half the shots I go for, trying to find the bird through the lousy EVF, although the zoom retract has helped in that regard.
I pretty much use the SX50 as a high-powered point and shoot. Practically every shot I take is at max zoom or beyond, but otherwise I'm not that demanding of it. I long ago accepted the fact that I'll never get good flight shots, and I don't need to print photos, so I'd have been happy if the SX60 had just delivered an improved viewfinder with results equivalent to the SX50....didn't seem like that much to ask.
I couldn't get anybody in the yard to sit still long enough to get the same bird in the same light at the same distance, but here's a link to a couple of inanimate objects taken with both cameras at approximately the same focal length (had to crop the SX50's to fill the frame similarly.)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g6d3jipq3cm13jo/AADvqlarlulJdHr_etY5u82Oa?dl=0
I'll also include a link to my flickr photos, (most of which were taken with the SX50) to give you some idea what I've come to expect a bridge camera to do. Many were taken through double-paned windows or at great distance (of a moving subject,) so I'm used to less-than crisp images. I don't change priorities or shoot raw, and know I'm not I'm not maximizing the abilities of the camera, but I'd have been happy to get similar results from the new model.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/89510826@N05/with/15376165242/
BTW, the first two images in the photostream were NOT taken by me, but by my husband with a Sony Alpha 65. I put them in cause I didn't see the Chestnut-sided he captured, but they also serve to demonstrate the difference in image quality between a bridge camera and and one paired with a 500mm lens and proficient operator. Incidentally, he fooled around with the SX60 for a while but lost patience with it....couldn't get it to focus properly.