Scott: 

As your probably a where, outside of Kenwood,  the other manufacturers have something to be desired with regards to accessibility. 
As I've not owned an Icom, I did own the Yaesu FT-450 non D version and I found it to be a nice little HF rig. 
Once I got sighted help to set up the menu items the way I wanted, it was pretty much set and forget and the F/CS button combo, announced both the freq and mode. 
If you were in split mode, pressing the F then CS, would announce the RX frequency, followed by the TX frequency. 
You would set another item in the voice synth menu to announce the S-9 and mode. 
I left it in the default as I wanted to know the frequency. I found the filtering pretty good but I'd imagine there's improvements to the FT-450D. 
If your going up to the FT-950 and above, you may need a PC connected and HRD to get any frequency, S-9 announcements and such. 
I ran this FT-450 in a remote Station configuration as well, worked right out of the box with the remote rig products. 

Good luck, hope to work ya on 20M some morning and 73: 
Mike DE VO1AX