Consider that Canon has sold around 50% of all ILCs every year for the past few years. With some reasonable assumptions about camera useful life, that means somewhere around 80% of all ILCs in use today are Canon. So while Canon could lose the #1 spot, it's not going to happen overnight and it's not going to happen because of one decision they make (unless that decision is to pull out of the ILC market, lol).
Seeing as how DSLR is old technology, and all 3 major brands no longer make DSLR's, nothing you just said makes any relevance.
Your argument is like saying Ford has owned the automobile market for the last 20 years, yet Tesla has majority in the EV market.
Naturally the mirrorless market is a different game and employing marketing mumbo jumbo to try and prove your asinine claim a company cannot fall behind if it stops being aggressive, (What happened to Nokia and Motorola being the leaders in the cellular phone market?)
As I have said before, history suggests that Canon knows how to make these sorts of decisions in ways that benefit them. OTOH, many people on this forum have a terrible track record of predicting how Canon's strategy and decisions will affect the outcome, since none of those predictions of dire effects for Canon have come to pass. In other words, "their opinions" were wrong.
Obviously, we would hope Canon makes great business decisions otherwise why would we invest in their brand and use their gear.
Most people on this forum are trying to assess what and why these decisions are being made and what the outcomes might be. Otherwise, there is no purpose for a Rumor Forum....
Are you trying to say you know exactly what Canon's strategy is? and why they are making certain decisions?
If so, why you are stooping beneath your illustriousness to comment on speculations on a Rumor Forum Site?
I would speculate that Canon knows exactly how many 35mm L primes they have sold and to whom, and has decided based on those numbers relative to other lenses to prioritize an RF 35L lower than other lenses. The EF 35L II is an excellent lens, and works perfectly on R bodies via the adapter. I have no doubt Canon could easily design and make a better 35mm lens than Sony, just as I have no doubt Sony could have designed and made an even better 35mm GM (cost is the missing part of the equation, obviously). But design and production resources are finite, so Canon has to pick the order for RF lenses to be made. It seems very likely that a 35/1.4L or 35/1.2L will be among them.
I know the EF lens is a great lens, so are tubed tired, but why would I want to use an outdated tubed tire when I can use tubeless?
Better yet, here is a better analogy, why would I use a ssd drive in my computer when I can use a nvme. Especially if I have a computer with the latest PCI spec that can utilize the speed of a nvme drive. Just because I can does not mean I should. Especially if I am interested in obtaining the best of the best gear.
I hope an RF 35L is the next lens to be released.
They've stated ~8 lenses/year are coming for the next few years (we have had that discussion already, the one where "in your opinion" you knew how to count Canon's lenses better then they do).
Whether you count by announce date (which I stated in my other post) or release date, they have only
Released 6 so far this year, not 8. Maybe you need the sesame street count to help you count to 6, ah ah ah.
Since they are counting them by
Release/Available date, they have 2 months left to have the 135 on the shelfs in order to make it Seven! ah ah ah.
Maybe we will get a surprise with 2 lens announcements available for sale on the shelfs to make it Eight! ah ah ah....
It's sad to see a smart guy like you believing marketing hype as fact just because they said so.