Uh huh. Are you using this data to publish another article, with your Ph. D. in Trolling?
I think the profession prefers the appellation "Controversialist".
Of course one shouldn't overdo it
but sometimes one does get interesting outcomes after the first reactions.
Paradoxically, a thread where these features have been excluded has demonstrated that if somebody needs leaf shutters, robust tethered workflow and a removable sensor then the XF is probably a no-brainer. Synn is a good representative of customers who have found in Phase a product that is ideal for them, can articulate it, but for some strange reason believe that their criteria are universal.
Another conclusion is that we all agree that the Phase software output quality is very very good. Phase really need to work to keep their software at the top of its game.
Another thought for now is that P1 has a protected market -see above- and that therefore the firm which is going to get hit hardest and first by the demonstrable popularity of Pentax and the price differential may not be Phase but strangely enough Hassy.
Pentax has clearly now got mindshare. Will this translate into the corresponding sales? It should, but 35mm seems to also being eating into the 645 buys ... again. But we all knew that, it's a cyclic thing, 35mm chewing and swallowing the 645 cake one bite at a time.
Last, not least, I think the good people at Pentax are watching this thread carefully and are probably putting tethering and leaf shutters on their priority list
Edmund