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@mmccarthy
Can't be bothered with quoting each individual post that I want to reply to so i'll briefly sum up what I think.
Alonso is definitely the best all round driver on the grid, Hamilton as much as it pains me to say it is right there with him. They're the only two drivers who can wring the neck out of an underperforming car as opposed to complaining about it (Vettel and Button, i'm looking at you). Very few, if any would even come close to Alonso in that car. Massa is usually about a few tenths down on Alonso in qualifying, which isn't great, but it's not horrible either. Were we demanding Webber got fired when Vettel was walking all over him? No. Just look at what happened when Ferrari tried replacing him after the accident with Badoer (who wasn't that great admittedly) and Fisichella (who managed 2nd in a Force India behind Kimi's Ferrari before moving to Ferrari and never got higher than 9th, usually quite a bit further back than that). I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason Ferrari are keeping him is because they know that if they got anyone else in, they'd probably be even worse.
All in all, Massa is nowhere near Alonso, like most other drivers. He'll most likely be replaced by Perez when his contract runs out. Until then he's doing as good a job as you can expect.