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I have one of the older Ricoh GRDs with the thumbnail sensor. They're great fun if you like a 28mm aspect - really easy to shoot with, very manipulable, very discreet, and have a nice distinctive feel to the images, particularly if you play with the settings.
The B/W mode can be made nicely contrasty for Daido Moriyama-esque shots, and you can do quite fun things with the built-in flash if you like that slightly bleached out Terry Richardson-esque effect (not the porn, am just talking about the flash). People do other weird and wonderful things with them.
But I think they're cameras for people who want to achieve a particular 'look' and who are happy to work with the 28mm aspect - they're not versatile in the way that an RX100 or a G15 or X10 or suchlike is. So make your choice based on that, I guess.
My other go-to camera (replacing an X-Pro 1 that was stolen) is an X100s, while my D700 is languishing on a shelf for the rare occasion I really need speed and interchangeable lens... So I guess I'm in that category. But a fixed lens camera I think has to be very much something that you want to impose on yourself - otherwise you may well just find it frustrating and would probably be better off with an ILC or a zoom compact.