Antonio G. Di Benedetto, writing at The Verge:
I recently got to hold the Leica M EV1 and tinker with it for a few minutes in a very brief hands-on preview, and I found it to be exactly what I was expecting from a long-rumored “M EVF” camera — though not a modicum more. It’s the bare minimum of swapping the rangefinder for an EVF on an M11-based camera, especially considering Leica deleted the viewfinder window and left that area starkly blank, without even relocating the red dot logo. The window for the rangefinder patch is oddly still there, too, now housing an LED light for the timer. It all looks a little jarring and, frankly, ugly to me.
I love that they're doing something like this, although this seems (at first glance) to be a bit clumsy as a first effort. Having the front lever control focus peaking sounds like a great use for that control.
Leica’s new M camera drops its iconic rangefinder for an EVF
No rangefinder, no problem. If you’ve got nine grand.