Yeah I do understand that sort of feeling guys, when you spending decades and freaking amount of money building your gear and some prank with cheap crap saying he can do that. This is widely happens in the entire industry - you can feel that, thanks for RED - no more overnight dailies, no more DOP staying next to god, everything can be instantly played back and become questionable right away, magic about unprecedented professionalism slowly dissipates... Every project on a budget :) sorry. And damn Canucks (and I'm proudly one of them) keep stealing job's from California :)))
And wide lenses - you know, people like it, THEY think it is cool, thanks for go pro camera who's made them tasteless, ha ha. If someone made almost the same gear for couple dimes, 99.99% of the clients will accept the result, cause it will be so damn close. So we struggling for 0.01% of perfectionists, who still wants to shoot film instead of Alexa/RED and pay super cool Steadicam DOP $20K per day? I'm not sure. Some of us really frustrated, others look for opportunity.