Important to remember, there's more stuff being added to the EOS R after release

Canon will be augmenting the EOS R fairly rapidly after initial release.  So perhaps take some of the consternation of initial preview reports with a slight grain of salt.

It's expected that the firmware update will occur a few months after the October release.  Perhaps Canon did rush this ahead of their initial planned release date?

What's coming;

1. Eye detect AF in continuous shooting mode
2. Additional touch bar functionality
3. Silent mode continuous shooting
4. Some small fixes to 4K video. Please note that changing the crop factor is not one of them, that's not a small fix.
5. And of course, any bug fixes that are found

Preview and Unboxing of the EF-M 32mm 1.4 Jared Polin released RAW files from the EOS R