>>4036171My thought has always been that instead of having SUCH a fragmented product line, a company like Canon could save costs and just focus on making quality equipment. Now that sales have slowed down so much and consumer camera sales are basically extinct, they should just focus on catering to pros--and there is no reason that shouldn't mean offering the best product for the best price.
Like, why even waste money designing and producing a new sensor for the Rebel line if it is literally just designed to be inferior to the 90D line at probably barely any cost savings anyway? Why manufacture seven different shutter designs simultaneously instead of just making one good one and using it in every single camera? Running all these separate product lines simultaneously, employing a whole design team (or wasting the time of their main design team) to focus on ways to hobble the camera has got to eat up payroll and manufacturing costs. Why the we still see such deliberate fragmentation, to this day, boggles the mind. Like, you look at the R7/R10 release, and it's like, they don't even use the same magnification in the viewfinder. The R10 is designed to have a worse user experience than the R7, even if you don't intend to use it for sports. Then you look at the buffers of each camera, and it's like, how expensive even is solid state memory these days? Is it REALLY that much of a cost savings to halve the R10's buffer compared to the R7? Is that REALLY how they were able to have an MSRP a whole $500 lower? By using a 16 GB micro SSD instead of a 32 GB SSD?
Especially now that every camera manufacturer is struggling with sales, companies like Canon have got to be feeling a lot of pain from paying salaries, and probably pensions, for so many useless employees. They should just have a few cameras, based on external properties.
Small mirrorless: EOS M size
Medium mirrorless: EOS R size
Large mirrorless: EOS R3 size
DSLR: 5D size
Large DSLR: 1D size
