What's up with the g100 specs?

Samuel Dilworth wrote:

What worries me about this camera is that the specs are really terribly off – not by a little – and yet Panasonic must have believed otherwise.

Panasonic is clearly trying to model off the M50 and trying to leave some room for future discounting. For two of the biggest criticisms most people brought up, I can see the reason:

1) Lack of IBIS is because they used the same mechanism as the GF series, which allows the camera to stay just as compact (other than EVF hump). There was no way they would develop another small IBIS assembly for a entry camera like this (Olympus on the other hand already had a lower end one for their E-PL series).

2) The cropped 4K and lack of 4K60p is because they likely used the cheaper and slower IMX269 sensor (also likely in GX9 and G95) to meet the lower price points. As for those calling for PDAF, not way they would launch that in such a low end camera even if they planned to add it.

Personally I feel the biggest waste of money was on the EVF. A vlogging camera doesn't really need that good of a EVF (or maybe even one at all), which would rarely be used by most vloggers. That money and space could have been spent elsewhere (like putting the faster sensor in, or maybe putting in the GX series mechanism for IBIS).

And here’s my point: if sales are poor as they surely must be, Panasonic may wrongly blame the failure on Micro Four Thirds generally rather than the botched marketing of this specific camera.

Well, we have no idea of the sales as Panasonic sales have really been hard to track traditionally. They aren't really doing much promotions however in the USA, but it may also be because they are treating it like the GX850 (where they don't even bother with an effort to move the camera).