I like MonoTouch so far but I must admit these are all valid points. There are more downsides Xamarin doesn't like to advertise, like problems with AOT compiler you can't anticipate until they bite you in the ass, the-GC-won't-collect-some-stuff problems that basically force you to always dispose native objects manually, and horribly buggy IDE that MonoDevelop is.
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I dont think I have your email address, but would love to share with you a tool I have been prototyping to identify the hard cycles in Objective-C that are causing the above leak problem.
In short, you should not need to manually Dispose, but you might need to use weak references from children to parents.