Pretty camera, but does "kit" imply that you have to buy the camera with that kit lens included?
That could be a real turn-off, especially as part of the Leica mystique is German-made optics. From that perspective, it wouldn't matter that the Japanese one may be superior. It's also a stretch to imagine that wider aperture lenses would not be even more of a need with small sensors, just to get shallow DOF which, for many creative photographers is an indispensable tool.
Price aside, for anyone starting from scratch, it appears it could be a very nice place to be. For me, shame about having video; just another useless feature to bump the price and have another possible fault line develop...
Seems there is nobody making a really simple, generally affordable camera with marvellous performance; everything is over-endowed with features some people may never want to use. Just like my old digi Nikons.
Rob