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Doesn't have to to be a this vs that type of situation, as an X100 variant can nicely compliment other X bodies.
For the price of adding a 23mm and then a speed light like the EF-X20 to an XPro2 you could nearly pick up a X100t on the used market or pay even less for an older version still, all with the added versatility of a spare body, the useful fill flash ability of the leaf shutter, and the simple easy-to-carry X100 body size.
There are certainly places I'd rather go with a $700 X100t than a $1500 Xpro2, with a $400 lens, and a $150 speed light. By that same token, there are times I'd get far more enjoyment and image variety if I carried something like a 18mm f2 and a 35/1.4 in a small shoulder bag with a XE3, XPro2 etc
Case in point, at a Disney park this past weekend I had the XT2, 18-55, and 35/1.4. Good versatile setup I'm sure everyone would agree, however, I honestly only took some pictures with the wider end of the 18-55, and since we were there during the harsher daylight hours, I could of really used some fill-flash. Didn't bring one though just because it was one more thing in the bag, and a bag I might add, I could of been happier actually not carrying given how little gear I used from it.
Seriously planning on buying an X100 again for that very purpose, family snapshots where size/weight are important and where that daylight fill-flash comes in really handy to give pretty blue skies with well exposed subjects, on a sunny 90 degree Florida afternoon.
Still got the 23/1.4 option on the other bodies should I want it, and the X100 just gives a slightly different set of options, and options are nice to have. I mean heck, how many of us have multiple overlaps for given focal lengths ?
I've got a 10-24, a 18/2 and a 18-55, all three giving me 18mm equiv, from f2 to f4, and yet I use them for totally different shooting needs and shooting outings.
The 10-24 isn't going to replace when I'd carry a 18mm f2.0 compact prime, any more than a 18mm f2 prime is going to replace the range and versatility of the 10-24 when I'm going out to shoot a landscape.
Just so many great tools in the Fuji shed, and honestly all of them are pretty darn good.
Maybe keep the X100F, and instead of the pricier XE3, grab a used XE2 for $500 or less, and throw a great compact wide angle like the 14/2.8 onto it, or add the 35/1.4 or f2 version.
Going out and want to travel light, just grab the X100F. More serious photographic trip, throw the XE2 into a little shoulder bag, keep the X100F around your neck. Lot less changing lens, you've got a camera always at the ready, you've got focal length options
I've owned every Fuji body to date, and while all are good in their own ways, none of them ever fully did what the X100 can do.
At the very least, I'd keep the X100F when you add on a Xe3, provided you go that route, and then and only then, if you don't find your using the X100F, sell it.
If you sell it now, just to buy a XE3 and 23/2, find you miss the X100F, and have to rebuy it, your just wasting money going in circles (been there done that!)
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