Yes, they are innovative features that I happen to want/need.
Defend Canon all you want. They are behind the competition in many aspects regarding modern mirrorless features and performance. It's quite clear at this point.
It's fair for you to want those features, but at this point, they're just features. There's nothing innovative about adding a feature that someone else already put into their device. Like, if Apple released a smartphone with curved edges, or Samsung added a notch, or one of them added another camera with a different FL, none of that would be innovative, even though you might want it.
It's much more accurate to say that going into 2019, each camera manufacturer's offerings has distinct differentiators and a feature mix that the others don't. Mirrorless full frame cameras aren't same-y... yet... because the market is youthful. So, buy the one you want for today, or just wait a few years, and like DSLRs have become, they'll all be very similar (and you'll be able to get more for less money). Or don't.
Either way, it's only innovation if it's some
new idea.
You are defending canon along with others that bring up that same Sony argument over and over. I never once said Sony is a perfect camera. It too has issues. In fact my original post had nothing to do with Sony whatsoever. I have been pointing out the fact that Canon's sensor tech and feature set of the EOS R FF mirrorless is generally behind the competition. Are the ergonomics better on Canon? Yep. Are the colors better? Yep. Is the sensor and video performance better? Nope.
The sensor and video performance lack compared to the competition. It's a fact. Not an unjust attack on Canon and not a promotion for Sony or any other manufacturer.
The 5D4 has a fine sensor, and if someone can't generate award-winning, amazing photographs from it, the problem is behind the viewfinder. Are Sony or Nikon sensors better? In some ways, yes, yet in other ways, it is clearly inferior. But we are at the point where flagship sensors are so good that for most photographers, professional or otherwise, they're all great sensors, and certainly good enough.
I can't speak to video, as I would much rather use a camcorder or smartphone to record video than any camera.