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I attempted to go mirrorless... and as a result, people stopped hiring me. The problem with mirrorless (if there is a problem to begin with) is that people no longer perceive you to be a professional photographer because you're no longer using the gear that professional photographers use. The sad thing is that you can take beautiful pictures without a DSLR. Some of the compacts and especially mirrorless models today are very capable.
The reason for this misconception is due to the main photographic companies themselves. For YEARS they've been impression on people that they need a DSLR to get professional results. The more expensive the lens and camera, the finer the quality of images it could produce. The did this to convince people to drop the compact cameras of yesterday and to embrace the far more lucrative DSLR lens trade. They don't care about the money they make from camera bodies... they want to sell you lenses because of the obscenely high profit margin behind them.
Now that the public and mainstream have been indoctrinated into believing that they MUST have a high-end DSLR with expensive lenses to take good pictures, photographers who attempt to find work can't obtain it because people are skeptical of their "tiny" camera systems.
I think mirrorless is the way to go for 95% of photography. There are some benefits in Full Frame for certain subjects. But remember also that PHYSICS limits photography as well: Due to a little quirk in physics that manufacturers are only just starting to get their heads around - we've reached the limits of what optics can do for cameras. So now, in order to increase image quality further, we need to look at even larger optics. This isn't something that can be overcome with creative new lens designs... this is simply a limitation of the laws of physics themselves. A prominent scientists wrote a recent paper on the subject and it made a lot of people in the industry realize that we've hit a creative limitation.
