>>4155385>shallow grips are for aestheticsNo, keeping down profile and weight is important if you have a camera on a neck strap. A lighter body with a pancake lens or small prime is more convenient as an EDC than one with a large grip.
It might not matter to you, but it matters to plenty of people. You can slap a pancake lens on even a XS10 but it’ll still be cumbersome when compared to an X-E4, Pentax Q, something similar.