If this is your first Moto phone with the active display, trust me you will not miss the LED. The screen lights up when you pick it up or pull it out of your pocket. It also pulses when notifications come in. From the many reviews, you'll see that some of the best feature of the old X, new, X, Droids, are the app suite from Motorola and a huge reason the new X and Turbo are at the top of my list over the Z3, Nexus, and Edge.
LED notifications help me know if I have a work email vs. a personal email, text from my wife, text from my kids by color from across the room, or for that matter on the coffee table. Active notifications can't differentiate anything to that extent. It would be difficult to lose that functuonality. Otherwise this Turbo is exactly what I want. Ugh.
Moto is still owned by Google. It is reasonable to assume that that OEM still eschews SD because of its parent.
Nevertheless, the X doesn't belong to Verizon, neither do the AT&T/T-Mo Droid Maxx variants of this phone. So is your argument that this phone doesn't have SD because Verizon didn't demand it? Ergo, it's Verizon's fault? Really?