> Electronic viewfinders are fundamentally inferior in terms of the viewing experience [...]

I respectfully disagree with that. Current generation viewfinders have excellent resolution and very little lag, and while that will never be as perfect as an optical viewfinder, they do have the great benefit of being able to show you the image as it would be after exposure (so you can see which parts would be over or underexposed for example), and can overlay much more useful information.