I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels like the R5's AF is not all it is cracked up to be.

It's fine, it works pretty well for a lot of stuff. But I can't tell you how many times I heard statements of it completely blowing away anything else including 1-series and it being phenomenal.

It's ok, what I would expect from a 5-series. Definitely easier to use for the novice as long as you use it within It's limits it works. Like say a 24-105mm. It works great, plenty of DOF to work with and the eye detect makes it super easy for a less experienced user. But it doesn't nessarily perform better, it behaves really differently.