One could consider it generous, but one could also consider it self serving and driven by the lack of Sony lens options for so long a time.
Leica doesn't have this problem, as they have a ready assortment of perfectly appropriate M and R lenses in the hands of potential customers and on the market to adapt to the SL with dedicated adapter and profile optimizations. Same for Hasselblad, given the mount adapter for H lenses that will ship with the X1D and nets a system of 14 available lenses. Given these existing ecologies of supporting equipment, there is little real motivation for philanthropy.
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By that logic of counting Leica M & R lenses as "native" (of convenience I might add) the Sony system isn't paltry (and hasn't been for years) if you count A-mount and Minolta lenses.
Let's be honest about it all. Yes the Sony FE cameras only launched with three lenses with longer and faster zooms coming a few months later but Leica only had "perfectly appropriate" R lenses on the second hand market due to abandoning the system years ago. People got tired of awaiting the "R-solution" and decided to off load R lenses, convert them, or some adapted them to mirrorless bodies.
The SL is a very good camera (few will deny that as attributed to the images in the Fun with thread...) and one that would've kept me as a Leica customer possibly. If we are talking about native use without adapters then yes the FE mount was limiting (and still is for some) for certain types of photography. The SL is far more limited in the number of native options available although the focal ranges covered with the two available lenses are greater than what was available in the FE mount until recently when the 70-300 was released.
Not to make it a brand war (because there's far too much negativity surrounding this camera to begin with) but this is a MF thread on the Hasselblad X1D and the potential merits of it. You've repeatedly stated that you have limited interest in the camera (and how great the Leica SL is compared to everything else in 35mm format, how terrible adapting lenses can be, etc.) so I think it's fair to say... Everyone gets it... You love your Leica and have limited interests in the Hasselblad X1D.
I'm not a moderator or the thread police but you seem to have an odd habit of repeating yourself and continuing to follow threads after you state that it doesn't interest you in multiple threads. Now I think more often than not I tend to enjoy and value your perspectives, your images, and input... Even when I don't agree with them. I just don't understand why anyone would constantly follow or comment on things that don't interest them.
In other news the Regional Manager for Hasselblad reached out and told me they're attempting to plan a Hasselblad X1D Event in my area in the late-July to mid-August timeframe.