>>3349659The problem with Pentax is that they're trying to be direct competition for Canikon, which is not how you keep up as a smaller company simply due to economy of scale. You can't go head to head with a company 20 times your size when your DSLRs do the same things, cost more to make, but sell for less.
645 was an unique proposition for some time, but it's a very niche camera that can't sustain a company on its own.
>>3349841Well, Pentax did once rush towards mirrorless, but their ideas of distinguishing their cameras from other mirrorless systems proved to be misguided.