Amen to that - I'm finding this year that a softshell is too heavy for it's warmth, and that camo is over rated and over priced!
Wicking t-shirt, exped-weight or light fleece midlayer, puffy coat, and shell is how I roll. Puffy is tuned to the season: Montbell jacket early, golite hooded jacket mid, patagonia DAS late.
Softshells make good pants, but this year I wore non-spray-painted solid brown sporthill pants (tight woven polypro), and they worked really, really well in september. Never mind looking like I'm wearing jammies - I'll never look as fashionable as the kuiu/sitka/camo du jour crowd.
