At the moment, Canon is offering more, so of course they have the right to charge more for it.
I can only say that I shoot people and the EOS R does a far, far better job than the 6D II ever did, the focus was off sometimes (so it was actually not bad changing to the LCD sometimes, where it was more reliable), while it is dead-on on the EOS R as long as focus point is placed at the right place or in some cases it is just easier to let it track the face and fire at the right moment without worrying about focusing. Not a small improvement.
I have shot a running event with it where the 6D II faired better, but I was using the wrong settings, so not giving the 6D II a win there either but the R is not a sports camera.
The battery life is honestly very good on the R as well, I guess it was even better on the 6D II, but it didn't matter in practise (far superior to the RP, and that is enough, probably much better than these new cameras as well with the IBIS and other stuff).
Well, if you hate the EVF, then you'll hate it a lot more on the Sony, that's all I can say about that...
The EOS R is the best EVF I've used but I still only rate it as 'decent', certainly not anything like an optical viewfinder, but it's pretty good and the trade-off is that I can get accurate focus a lot better and the right exposure is also easier to achieve.
Not the best camera by any means, but pretty capable overall, especially for the money, it is probably in stock everywhere, so deals can be found sooner or later.