The R7 Mark II revisited or is it Déjà vu?

I recently read an article detailing the latest rumors on the R7 Mark II, and it seemed to be quite familar to me, so had had to go back and read my thoughts on the R7 Mark II from a month ago.  Oddly enough the current article being bandied about is basically saying the same things I was back then a month ago.  This is the internet we live in.

40MP seems a stretch if Canon wants to increase the readout speed, or frames per second, while Canon can do both at the same time, they don't usually do so.  Remember, there's already a R7 Mark III in the works even while we wait for the R7 Mark II.

I'm honestly not sure who stated that the 7D was like a baby 1D-X. No, it was like a high performance variant of the 5D.  At the time, Canon could make shutter assemblies large for full frame or small for APS-C and faster.  It was very expensive and mechanically challenging to do both in the same camera body, and took a long time for Canon to master that.

The same really today when it comes to sensors.  Canon can make one with high IQ, but not extremely fast readout speed, and it's incredibly challenging for them to hit both at the same time.

I think when it comes to alot of these rumors, just keep in mind that if it's 6 months out - no one knows, probably not even most people in Canon.

What do I think? Actually I don't have a clue either, I do hope that Canon goes back to the 7D/5D roots and we see a camera that more or less is the higher performing cousin to the R5 Mark II, but given how good the performance of the R5 Mark II and how good today's sensors are - Canon has to find a balance between giving birders their high pixel density pixels on target camera, and not making a camera so good that it completely supplants the R5 Mark II.