I like the Phantom models. The size makes it easy to see out to almost 1500 feet for me. It has decent battery life. It's pretty easy to transport for work assignments. For me the downsides are the lack of "enterprise" type cameras. The Phantom is much more than a "consumer drone". It is used by industry to inspect crops, structures, do surveys and monitor properties. The Phantom is perfect for "enterprise" applications. But it needs to have the capabilities to do these jobs. What I mean is, well, my wish list for the P5 would have to include,
1, A camera with zoom features. This isn't asking too much. We have had small UAVs with digital and optical zoom from Walkera and others. Looking at the Aeryon SkyRanger R60 with it's 30x zoom camera, I wonder why DJI hasn't given us something like that in a quad like the Phantom. For this sort of camera on a DJI sUAS we have to bump up to the Inspire or Matrice line. I'm sure the Phantom could handle this even if it means beefing up the body and motors a little bit more.
2 Besides Zoom the other camera capability I want is Thermal. Again, looking at the SkyRanger as an example,
SkyRanger R60 | Aeryon , is there any reason why the Phantom 5 shouldn't have swappable cameras?
3, Built in strobes. Those of us with, or applying for, waivers to fly at night often have to resort to adding third party strobes to our UAVs. We stick things like the little Firehouse ARC II strobes on with velcro tape and then have to recharge them each separately after each flight. The Phantom 5 should come with Cree Strobes built into the body and powered by the onboard battery. They should able to be turned on and off via the menu.
4, ADS-B In displayed on the App just like the Mavic Enterprise. Heck, that should be on the app for EVERY model from the Spark on up.
I don't think DJI should drop the Phantom line. They just need to stop marketing to people who want to be amateur film makers and start going after the industrial and private business users who want these features without having to get into something the size, weight and cost of the Matrice or Inspire models.