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If you want an easy switch, then I think you can begin by buying the MC-11 and swapping your Nikon Sigma Art lenses for Canon ones. You will get the EVF and stabilization you want with lenses with which you are familiar. Then swap your Nikon 28 f/1.8 and 85 f/1.8 or the Sony 28 f/2 and 85 f/1.8. Now you have switched four of your major lenses with little extra cost and lenses that perform very similarly, and you get the EVF, IBIS, and a smaller camera with a great sensor especially for high ISO. That leaves just the 20 f/1.8 and the 70-200 f/2.8 IS zoom to replace. If you can have a bit of patience, there is a rumour that Sony will come out with a 20mm lens supposedly this week. It would probably take awhile to get it in your hands, but that would be an obvious option to replace your Nikon 20mm if it indeed happens. If it doesn't then perhaps you could go with a pair of Zeiss Batis lenses the 18 f/2.8 and 25 f/2 to replace the Nikon 20 and 28.
Finally, I don't think there is a lens for Sony that is as good as the latest Nikon 70-200 F/2.8, but there are a number of options is you want to get such a zoom. The Sony GM is in theory an excellent lens, but it suffers in practice from what appears to be a lens that is very hard to build and it has a lot of copy variation. Still I think it is a solid option. You could also adapt the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS II which many people are fairly happy with adapted to the Sony A7r II and it could use the MC-11 adapter that use could use with a Canon mount Sigma 35 and 50 Art.
If you don't want to go wit the Sigma 35 and 50 Art. The Sony/Zeiss 35 and 50 f/1.4 lenses are very nice, especially the 50. As nice as the Sigma Art is, in my view the Sony/Zeiss is ever nicer. The 35 again seems a bit hard to build in practice, however, and again has a lot of copy variation making it somewhat hard to find a good centred copy.
So, you could go completely with native Sony E mount lenses that are similar to your current setup and get the FE 20 f/1.8 (presuming it comes out soon as rumoured), the FE 28 f/2, the Sony/Zeiss 35 f/1.4, the Sony/Zeiss 50 f/1.4, the FE 85 f/1.8, and the Sony GM 70-200 f/2.8 OS.
Or you could go with mostly adapted lenses and get the Zeiss Batis 18 f/2.8, the Zeiss Batis 25 f/2, the Sigma 35 f/1.4, the Sigma 50 f/1.4, the Sigma 85 f/1.4, and the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS II.
Or any mix of these lenses would serve you well too. Personally, I think a lot of the Batis lenses so I would recommend something like the Batis 18 f/2.8, the Batis 25 f/2, the Sigma Art 35 f/1.4, the Sigma Art 50 f/1.4, the Batis 85 f/1.8, and the Batis 135 f/2.8 APO (as a replacement for the 70-200 f/2.8) and you would have an excellent kit with relatively small lenses for most of your shooting.
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