I agree with the OP. I have zero interest in video and do wish that cameras were smaller, lighter, cheaper and yet still capable of maximum FF quality. Strip out the crap by making them dedicated to one discipline or the other!
But I suppose the trend is being spread everywhere because of its money-making possibilities. Try buying a car without a host of additional junk bolted onto it!
I bought my new Fiesta last winter, and had to pay a lot more for it - about a thousand plus Euros - than I wanted to pay because it was in stock, supposedly the last of the coupés to have the 1.6 diesel option, and was black, itself a pain in the ass, because though it makes my third black car, you can only have that in a metallic look that, frankly, looks cheap! It also has a bunch of nonsense that includes voice control et bloody cetera. I've had cars since '56 and never felt deprived because I had to use a key, control the heat to suit myself; I never felt inclined to talk to any of them nor indulge in any other questionable behaviour with them. If I'm alone and feel the need for conversation, I have the best audience in the world to hand as well as the best opinions I could wish to hear. I need to engage vocally with a car?
Yes, we are being suckered at every step of the bleedin' way. And that's not even going into the subject of TV package deals, banks, nor supermarket ploys.
Rob C