95% of peoples never read forums, barelly open the manual, have no clue what f7.1 means, and don't really care. They just buy one camera or another and shoot auto.
If you feel offended, are you in those 95% ?
1.6 is available.
Here is Canon French page, but the firmware is the same for everyone https://www.canon.fr/support/consumer_products/products/cameras/digital_slr/eos-r.html?type=firmware
I went from excitement to dissapontement in less than 3 seconds
Edit: by the way, there is a firmware update for the grip bg-e22, released few days ago
It used to be the case on DSLR, new Art lenses like 105 f1.4 are extremelly accurate.
On eos R, all compatible Art lenses are as accurate as Canon lenses, they focus dead on the spot