Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Buy and enjoy their cameras while avoiding their software as much as humanly possible.

Oh, I do. I mean part of what is so great about these cameras is their everyman quality — plus secondhand availability.

There is a Sony mirrorless camera at essentially every secondhand price point you can imagine.

At heart, I am a Nikon guy. My wallet, though, is a proper little Sony fanboi.