Being that this is Canon is a high chance that at least one of these are going to come out. Software stretching? Plastic lenses and now software stretching... wow. Canon 2024 lets go!
I was skeptical about the PMO used for the RF28mm, but it is a very sharp lens, that I find very fun to use.
Similar thing for the stretching needed on the RF16mm, its corners at f/2.8 are sharper than my 17-40 F/4L.
So far I have no complaints about the stretching or PMO, which I expected to have before using the lenses. I bought them mainly for their size and weight, the image quality has been surprisingly OK.
Let’s see what real world results the 2024 stretchy plastic lenses achieve before a priori pooh-poohing them. I bet the RF-S lenses will likely be very underwhelming, while the RF ones will perform as promised. Canon likes to annoy people that refuse to use RF lenses on APS-C cameras that way.