ranger9

Yes, exactly.
 
Sometimes people like to brag about their ability to hand hold at slow speeds or they demand IBIS, (not on this thread though) and for sure this is an important skill and IBIS can be a useful feature.
 
But when something is moving in the frame there's just no substitute for shutter speed, and in indoor events, this can mean needing a fast lens

Okay, here's a slightly different perspective, from someone who had an X-T 10 and sold it to buy an X-Pro 2 (just to get OVF): The X-T 10 is a REALLY nice camera. In a lot of ways I think it's the best camera Fuji makes. It has a handy compact size and light weight; control placements are good and handling is as good as it gets in the Fuji world; the EVF is really nice; real-world AF performance is just fine; picture results are excellent; and it's much more sensibly priced than Fuji's newer high-end cameras.
 
Why would you walk away from all that? It's not like you're not missing out on much. The big-buck Fujis have weather sealing, but do you need that? The difference between 24mp and 16mp is trivial in the real world (it only increases your maximum print size by 1.2x) and the 24mp sensor introduces some new problems (harsher tonal transitions, more noise in midtone shadows.) If you really cared about video you probably wouldn't be using Fuji.
 
You've already got the best of what Fuji has to offer. Stick with it!

Quoting lenses in "35mm equivalent" is like quoting your new car's gas mileage in "horse equivalent" bushels of grain per furlong.

The photo of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi, identified in this post as staged, was not staged. The photographer, Joe Rosenthal, has explained this thoroughly many times over the years. He took the original photo of the flag-raising as an unstaged grab shot. Later, realizing that editors would want the faces to be visible, he staged a photo with the soldiers standing smiling in front of the flag. He then filed his pictures and went on with his work.
 
Later, without having seen which photo was used in the press, he met another photographer who congratulated him on the photo and asked if it had been staged. Assuming that it was the set-up photo that had been used, he said, "Sure." It was only later that he discovered it was the unstaged photo that had become famous… but his momentary misunderstanding has clouded the facts ever since. (Many articles are available that show both photos, making it clear that the photo of the smiling soldiers was the staged one.)
 
Of course this does not invalidate the contention that photographs are selected and interpreted according to the user's desired representation of a situation. But if one intends to take photographers to task for making inaccurate claims, it is important that one takes care to make sure one's own claims are accurate.

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2-3 Stops? So you're saying that iso 800 on an em5ii is the same as around iso 1600-3200 on a fuji? I own and use both and can confirm that is not the case. Particularly when you account  for how much Fuji bluffs iso numbers.
 
Also Fujis are fantastic in high-contrast light, but in poor lighting, I find the sensor can struggle. I've taken shots at iso 1250 on the x-t1 in low-contrast light that look like ass. I've also taken shots in the studio at iso 4000 on the x-t1 by accidentally bumping the iso knob that look fantastic. The Em5 mkii and Fuji X-t1 are fairly comparable at iso 3200 to my eye. Fuji wins by maybe half a stop at 400 through to 1600.

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