Depending on how you develop (hah), you may come to find "Proper color straight out of the camera" a bit of an irrelevance. By its very nature, a camera can only make simple guesses about a good colour balance and luminance curve looks like for any given shot. If its guesses happen to be ones that satisfy you for the sort of shots you take, great, but you may well move on to taking RAW format photos and messing about in post-processing to get results that satisfy you more, especially if you take a wide range of types of shots. And your range from cats to landscapes to events is wide!

So do look at the post-processing options and software available for that camera (alas, I can comment nothing on the camera model). It also means that quality of lens, sensor and auto-focus should also be a concern of course - if the basics aren't right, no post processing can rescue the result (bar outrageous levels of AI work).