Well reasoned. I agree there will not be a problem for most users and use cases. The marketing should perhaps have been more cautious.
Not sure Canon, busy making great cameras, was prepared for the negative whiny world of youtube parasite do nothing reviewers and their dim-witted followers who eat up their conflict laden drivel. I am continually surprised at how low some of these reviewers will stoop, how large their egos, how gullible their audience is, and how they and their followers do almost everything on irrational emotion instead of thinking. It is truly sad that some of the most careless, abrasive, immature and just gross personalities are listened to by so many.
Canon probably thought the use case for high frame rate and high bit rate 4K modes and 8K would never be thought by anyone to be used for long form shooting. Enter a bunch of griping brand elitists and amateurs with unrealistic expectations and now there is an alleged fatal flaw in the product. Consumers have become dumb and spoiled, and the voice of un-reason is pandered to in the modern world, rather than ignored or refuted. It really is the most complex problem businesses face- how to please an increasingly whiny user base.
I'd like to make a counter-argument on this. While I mainly agree that "conflict laden drivel" seems to drive people nowadays, probably a byproduct of needing ad revenue, the result of such fervent personalities on Youtube and their commonly abrasive followers have allowed certain product flaws to be exposed and unfortunately sensationalized quite readily. Good and bad perspectives are expressed, and picked apart by people with all sorts of experiences and what not either against or for...
This is good in some ways. In itself, This has allowed a greater understanding of any product's pain points well ahead of the time I need to reach for my credit card. This saves me money because there is now an abundant amount of data to review. After watching a few A7S3 reviews that seem to not overheat and now 1 or 2 data points that say otherwise which many might consider an outlier, it may actually signal a product flaw not previously uncovered or maybe simply a defective unit or inconsistent testing methodology. If it's the latter, I may exclude that data point and any future data points from that source..
At the end of the day, the onus is on myself to pick which personalities, review sites, etc. affect my buying decisions amid the noise. I can't wish the noise away and if I want to leverage the wealth of data, I have to take out my earplugs.. DPR has long been criticized for being anti-Canon, and perhaps they have been, but their approach has generated plenty of revenue one way or another and since we can't just "erase" them out of existence, like DXO, the only thing we can do is convince others perhaps to take a more weighted approach instead of just taking the opinion of 1 or 2 data points or sensationalizing headlines. Expressing that DPR is bad, and Youtubers and followers are bad, etc. is simply too black and white. I feel your comment is more emotionally driven than what the reality is and the reality is much more nuanced than saying businesses have to cater to an increasingly whiny user base.
Also, as time passes, trends, fashion and tastes all change. People that were younger perhaps like us are now older, have more income, but are increasing less adaptable to change in society as we age, like pretty much every generation that precedes it. We may not like the way society is going represented in some micro-communities like this, etc. but since we have little power to influence the many, perhaps we would be better to see how to leverage what is in front of us.
