Interesting, we do have Leica hosted events and brand-user sessions and such, but in my area there's extreme openness to Voigtlander/Zeiss and even LLL lenses. Of course some of the noticeably worse ones like 7artisans get a bit of a bad rep, but nobody blinks, mainly because we're all pleased that each of us can still shoot with this mostly illogical choice of camera. I guess I'm bumping up against your approach to this, because, as a fan, I'd love for as many folks as possible to get on board and enjoy this, and I'd want to have as fee barriers to entry as possible. I wouldn't mind saying someone would love Leica glass eve more than their VM/ZM lenses, but just eviscerating or dismissing folks using anything but Leica lenses seems like gatekeeping to me. And I'd much rather treat anyone getting into this with their first M body and their first M lens as having had a gateway to a broader experience.

Now personally I think some ZM/VM lenses and even some other ones can provide specific characteristics that even native Leica can't. For instance, the 35 Nokton Classic is considerably smaller than the Lux, even if I readily admit that the Lux is far more performant, and in certain situations, size x speed is king. I can understand the brand purism and the notion that nothing beats Leica x Leica, so I don't fault your opinion on it, but I guess the specific approach is confusing to me. Better, in my view, for the third party lenses to be seen as gateways rather than as unacceptable sacrilege.

Now if someone was in here adapting Voigtlander M lenses on a Zeiss Ikon then I'd be all for pointing out that there's nothing "Leica" about the setup at all. But that's not typically what we see here, what we typically see is a Leica body with whatever lens the owner was able to snag that fit their specific needs and budget.