It looks to me like camera makers are trying hard to produce/sell multipurpose products which is understandable. However, an obvious consequence of this is that they become more complicated to use.
My interest in photography pertains to wanting to produce high quality still pictures suitable for making large size prints that can be framed and substitute for art such as paintings. I have NO need or desire to shoot videos. It occurs to me that the cameras I presently have may be sacrificing capability that applies to shooting still pictures in order to preserve the capability to shoot videos. For high quality video this may increase the sacrifice associated with still shots.
Even if engineers are able to produce products that maximize capabilities for both still and video shooting it looks pretty obvious that this adds significant complexity to operation of the camera.
Is it possible that there is such a thing as a camera that maximizes still shooting capability (i.e., professional quality) that does NOT bother trying to do videos? If so who makes/sells such cameras?
Just curious but do professional videographers actually use the cameras being made for professional still photographers? I'm thinking/guessing there is equipment made for shooting high quality video that wouldn't be used for still shooting and likely does NOT support such. At least NOT high quality still images. If so, maybe cameras for shooting still shots ought to do the same.