True re the dSLR sales, but still... They should release an adapter, as with the EF-R. You've got the R3, so you're ok, but a whole heck of a lot of us have picked up an R5 in the not too distant past. Right now, anyone without a flash is officially out of luck! No flashes available besides the used market (or left over stock).
Sorry, I really don’t understand your point. The EL-1 is available. The EL-100 is available. Both mount ‘natively’ on the R5, R6, etc. The 430EX III-RT appears to be still available, as well. Not to mention several 3rd party flashes, including some good brands like Profoto and Godox that mount on-camera.
There are no currently available Canon flashes, or 3rd party flashes AFAIK, that
don’t mount natively on the R5 or any camera with the old-style hotshoe. Of course, those flashes also mount directly and function normally (as far as electronics go) on the R3 / R6II / R7 / R10 with the new multifunction shoe.
The only available native flash-like product for the new multifunction shoe is the ST-E10 master (and the ST-E3-RT it replaces appears to still be available). The recently-announced EL-5 is the first flash that requires the multifunction shoe, i.e., is not compatible with the cameras having the old-style hotshoe, and that flash won’t even ship until the end of March 2023.
Until then, if I want a weather-sealed connection between my R3 and a sealed flash like the EL-1 or one of my 600EX’s, I must use the AD-E1 adapter.
If you want a new 600-EX II-RT and only a new 600-EX II-RT then yes, you’re officially out of luck. But to claim there are ‘no flashes available’ for a camera like the R5 is simply false.
