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As someone who has been shooting mirrorless landscape/abstract/street/travel (as an enthusiast), I'd say DSLRs are dead, and have been for a while. Mirrorless makes sense for pretty much everyone unless you're missing some super specific feature from a DSLR, or you're strapped for cash and currently happy with what you've got. The bodies are smaller, lighter, and more advanced in almost every way. Maybe sports and journalism demanded higher end AF and burst rates than what even the best mirrorless bodies could provide up until a few years ago, but with today's offerings from Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, and Panasonic, I think most would be hard pressed to find any ways their DSLR is still superior, at ANY price point.
I used a handful of low end DSLRs 10-15 years ago, with middling experiences as a result, but jumped right into a Fuji X-E2 back in 2015 for many reasons. Live exposure and focus of the image, focus peaking, great colors, and good DR were all on my list, in addition to the excellent small form factor given the APS-C sensor. I used that camera and loved it for years, eventually upgrading to the X-T bodies, which I've taken on numerous trips to beautiful nature destinations as well as busy cities. The benefits of mirrorless have always been pretty obvious to me, and mirrorless cameras have been around long before Canon dropped the R5/R6, so the recent novelty for DSLR shooters switching to mirrorless gives me a chuckle. Welcome to the club y'all.
Oh, and as for my Canon experience, well I just got an R5, for higher resolution (cropping and prints), slightly better DR, and 4K120, compared to my X-T4. I wanted to upgrade within the X system but Fuji just didn't deliver what I wanted in a single body and I'm not waiting another 2 years for them. I'll keep some XF lenses for small and light X-T4 shooting, but the R5 will be the new workhorse. It's still lighter and smaller than an equivalent DSLR, though unfortunately Canon made sure to keep their bodies as ugly and soulless as possible.
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