X-E1 and OMD

Cameras are very personal thing. If you take all the properties of a camera that matter and rank them in order, everyone will come out with a different ranking

None of the drawbacks of the Fuji bother me too much because they don't impact my style of shooting or subject matter. The upsides, in terms of IQ and handling, matter a lot and made the choice very easy.

I could quite understand someone coming to the opposite conclusion, but what's good for one is not always good for another.

OMD is a real all rounder, though for me it does not excel in any one area and it's fiddly to use without the grip (and too bulky with it). However once you have set everything up the way you like (which seems obsessively complicated BTW) it will do a good job of practically any type of shooting scenario.

The Fuji is much more specialised as a deliberate documentary stills camera, but if that's what you do there is nothing out there to touch it. It comprehensively outclasses the OMD in overall IQ (taken as a whole). In fact it trounces my D7000 as well. Embarrassingly so above ISO400.

And whereas there are some very nice (and expensive) lenses for MFT, there are quite a few disappointing dogs as well. All the Fuji lenses OTOH are good to excellent optically.