In the case of Leica, the cameras (and lenses) are both art objects and superb devices. The use demographic is, indeed, mixed between professional photogs and influencers, but the same was true of high-end DSLR and later high-end mirrorless cameras. What really brought (some of) the Leicas to influencers' attention - as well as Fuji - is the size and known glam-feedback-loop.
It would be good to know the real names of the coffee shop and the apple store owner.
What would better the lot of our societies is (genetic) culling of politicians. And, at the moment, there are multiple needs of such in Israel, where this invention/innovation comes from.
Read "Moon Moth" by Jack Vance - are we indeed going there? Time to pull out the double-kamanthil.
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James
