One can always conform to the programming and design as you say – I am afterall something of a masochist choosing to focus a 60mpx back without useable live view on a Linhof Techno GG – but I'm quite interested in feeding back to Hasselblad things they might do to develop the system going forward. This is my subjective opinion and I've relayed it all back to Hasselblad through my dealer.
I get it ... for a year and a half I used an Alpa TC with a H3D 39 II back ... had to power it off of a FW800 hub and external battery the size of a paperback book. No live view ... shoot and pray, that you might have come close enough to the focus plane of interest.
So for me the X1D is generations ahead of the past experiences. I have used joysticks ... and yes if you have to hurry the process they might be more to your liking. But again the touch screen pick of a focus point is so fast and accurate that
I doubt Hasselblad will want to change the design. Personally I am not in favor of touch screens and will go to whatever extreme to avoid their use ... so the scroll wheels work when I need to do an off center focus. But the touch screen is much faster and
has immediate feedback.
The comment just saying' is my editorial on everyone looking for their perfect dream of a camera ... if there is enough traffic on the internet ... it will drive the manufacturer to change a design. I am not convinced that is necessarily an impetus that the designers
will embrace. Might as well admit they were wrong and Fuji nailed it.
I see the X1D as a far development of the Leica T or cell phone programming implementation of a visual design interface. If you watch the video from Ming Thein ... it is all about the back of the camera and the touch screen. Of interest to me is that he
has had a stated preference for optical finders and seems to favor the H6D cameras for most of his work. In my short time with the camera ... the great advantage is the ability to focus at 100% magnification and nail the narrow plane of focus. But my
personal preference would be for a more Leica M feel and Leica Q speed. However the output is far above the somewhat stilted haptics that one has to work with ... and that is worth the effort.
I imagine that I can move to a focus point with the scroll wheels about 90% as fast as I could with a joystick ... and with time might improve on that differential. So with practice it may be less of an issue.
My doubts center on whether the design team at Hasselblad will make a change that would be an admission that their view for the future of mirrorless MF cameras was mistaken. But perhaps they will surprise us all.
Bob