Can't actually stop laughing out loud how great this lens is. I'm alone here and laughing browsing the shots I took today.
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The design team sure figured out a way to ride these usual compromises in a way that hinders usefulness the minimum amount. Sure, things get soft and purple-fringey wide open but even then, they manage to avoid softness in the center. So even then, the softness only helps with the usual usecase of making blur.
When you close down the lens you get a wonderfully crisp renderer. I notice it behaving the similar pattern as my Summicron 35. Sure the character may have gone somewhere but you get a crazy clarity to the images. Maybe it's just a full frame picture thing, but then again I didn't notice this clarity thing with Leica Q 28mm at f/8 whereas it was one of the first things I noticed when I closed down my then-new 35 'cron. This clarity is good in a way. (If you close down the 50 Heliar you'll get bleeding eyes because the resulting images are painfully sharp.)
Sure, the bokeh is not the nicest always. In fact, it can be very ugly. (See here
https://cameraderie.org/attachments/2019-09-07-13-38-mp004630-jpg.205131/) Some people ask on the internets, if this lens can best the Sonnar C. There's no question whatsoever.
The softness also that comes with wide open apertures can result in a cheap looking effect. One might give a quick glance at such a shot and think I used a smartphone's blurring features on the photo. So I'm not exactly a fan of it. But I take these characteristics any day, in a lens that sells for 420 € used.