The more I read and think about the SL, the more I start appreciating it as potentially becoming a great tool for me. Just thinking about its capability as a great M lens back, this alone would justify that camera for me, instead of needing to buy the M240, which I often tried to love but never really could.
I think that Leica did a lot of things right and they again did a bold move! Given the current stagnant situation of development WRT Canon and Nikon in the mirrorless arena, let alone the FF mirrorless, just because they fear that this will canibalize their existing DSLR and FF lens sales. This is really stupid of them, they only had to nail something together like the SL and enable usage of all their legacy lenses on this body with an adapter from the very beginning and would have a powerful mirrorless alternative for their users (pro users) asking for this. And I guess there would be plenty of those. They could of course also launch a new set of lenses optimism for their mirrorless cameras (maybe making them a bit smaller or more attractive zoom ranges and speeds) and they even could offer a mirrorless APSC body for those wanting something a bit smaller.
Instead of doing so we just saw all these newly warmed up cameras like Nikon D7200, D750, D810, etc. or Canon 7D2 over the past years and now the new high end incarnation of 5DSxyz etc. They should have had the balls to do a real step forward and leapfrog the competition. I actually have the feeling from all what I hear about their innovation towards missorless, that they still stick to OVF and conventional DSLR and seem to want to follow this concept for the next years. This is nothing than fear, laziness and ignorance and I actually cannot help than wishing them bad luck and the ticket to hell for this.
Brave Leica came out with that new mirrorless concept and while this camera of course can be criticized for lot of things, the ones it seems to do right outweigh by far the bad side at least for me. And they have the much more difficult task to develop a complete set of new SL lenses to make use of this fast AF, where else the incumbents C/N would have already their undeniably great and in many cases excellent and modern AF arsenal they could offer their customers to immediately mount on their mirrorless cameras, which will obviously not happen soon. I can only reiterate, this is nothing less than IGNORANCE and has been so for years now.
I do hope Leica has the power, resources, money etc. to build the SL lens ecosystem asap.