Are you kidding me? There's enough reports on it right now. What if it is from "Youtubers", does that make the findings invalid?
The camera overheats in standby or sometimes when taking pictures. It's currently unredictable, but once the heat is "in" it can take hours to be able to use 4K120 even for a minute.
How is this helping? Noone is "saving the world" here. But it would be nice to be able to use the advertised functions reliably even in the middle of a shooting day, not only when the camera is fresh.
How is whining endlessly helping? Describe to me how all these baseless claims repeating what you saw online amount to helping. For many of us, we know what the R5 is and it doesn't need your help. Works well here so far. I'll let you all know if it doesn't in a constructive, non hyped way.
Heat is not unpredictable, it is actually simple. The hotter the ambient air, the less a source can cool. The more the camera is doing, the more heat it produces. Most balanced reviewers are not claiming the R5 cannot shoot stills or low frame rate video in any condition any other DSLR cannot. The high frame rate video is the issue, and some reviewers have shown the A7S3 ALSO overheating before the Canon in two different tests. So what is the real point? There is no perfect camera, particularly no perfect hybrid camera. Hybrid designs always compromise something.
So you are going only on reviewers and not your own experiences? I OWN the R5 and am putting it through its paces while you watch youtube reviewers who make their living on click bait. Yes, youtube being the source makes many reports unreliable. There are too many amateur and emotional reviews and not enough science, rigor and fairness. Most of the larger reviewer channels are either egotistical an opinionated, or paid shills with sponsors. I'd no more trust them for the whole story than I would the Canon ambassadors.
There are also contradictory reports to the ones you are cherry picking about the overheat problems. Yes the camera has a heat issue, well defined by Canon prior to purchase- no one is going to make you buy this, it is clearly NOT for you. Yet you all want the camera to be something else than was described to you by Canon- so go buy it! Go get your Sony.
I am fine with the argument that Canon marketing screwed up by not being more cautious when advertising the video features, which confused people who don't know any better. This cannot be a dedicated video camera: Anyone who understands physics, some basic electronics, and how heat dissipates would realize a high MP sensor reading out at high bit rates is going to produce a lot of heat. Add weather sealing, IBIS which floats the sensor without a big heat sink, and it is super obvious there would be limits. Plus, Canon told you there would be. I get it that for uninformed people, Canon should have been even more clear on the limits rather than touting the 8K and high 4K modes so loudly.
I'm also fine with the argument that the heating issue can and should be improved if possible.
I'm not fine with the way the vast majority are expressing their concerns with constant whining saying that Canon cheated people, or the product is fatally flawed when that has not been proven with any logical reasoning. Just garbage hype from a select few. Again, every reasonable person realizes this is a weather sealed stills camera with short duty video capability. Since day one, all the people who blindly follow social media and youtube were convinced that this was a video camera when it so clearly isn't. Canon marketing may have messed up, but they also could never have prepared for how dumb and entitled people have become.
I own cameras from other brands including a dedicated Sony camera for video, and I am no brand elitist. When I have a problem with a product I CONTACT THAT COMPANY instead of whining over and over and over in random internet forums. I don't waste my time getting frustrated over things I don't own, I just look for something else and move on. I have no issue with being critical of a product constructively, it is the way you are all going about it- repeating what others said as if you know they are facts and then bashing the company mercilessly.