Bravo!!
I got slapped down for saying I thought SFO could be challenging. I'm no expert but I think I'm entitled to an opinion having been slam dunked pretty much every time I've come in from the north.
Re TIPP TOES, QUIET BRIDGE and the like - I don't think that's confirmed until you're at 11,000 approaching the field so that makes for another curve ball. Yes manageable of course, that's what we are paid for. The same goes for whether it's 28L or 28R. As NigeG said it is probably easier going left hand downwind although watch the terrain. Going downwind right hand it is very difficult to know when they will turn you onto base leg. I got it wrong once, admittedly when a fresh 'un, called for gear and flap and was then taken 20 miles downwind much to the amusement of the other chaps. Didn't stop reminding me the whole trip!