I have been seeing the word crippled associated with Canon since Magic Lantern 11 years ago unlocked features in the 5D Mark II that no one thought was possible.
People don't imagine the cost of such engineering, behind a simple feature into a firmware.
Yes, from here it is simple to say the feature is inside the tool and they just locked it, but if you look inside you may understand that it is way more complicated and need a lot of engineering to be developped and to fit every bodies.
For me it is exactly like into TESLAs, you can buy the low cost model without any feature. You have to pay to get these features. Because the developpment cost and the benefit for the customer has a price they can pay for.
Canon develop some features for the high end models, and disable it for the lower ends ones, so what? it is just normal.
Yes, maybe they made mistake, enabling the veiw of the button without enabling to click on it, but who know if it was really functionnable ?
Today a lot of us think the 4000$ target price is ok, what if it was cheap compared to the engineering and developpment costs ?
If so, it would be normal to see some features unlocked to keep them for higher ends models.