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The push-button, however, is a definite step backwards from the Walther paddle release.
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The paddle release is one of the great features of the PPQ series, and it is sheer Not-Invented-Here American obstinacy that is forcing Walther to back away from a really nice feature. To have two guns differing only in the way the mag releases is prob causing much fuming in Ulm.
I lost a mag from a Steyr GB when I fell from a horse and landed on my pistol-carrying side. It was in an open-carry flap holster. Didn't realize I lost my mag till I got home.
I have not carried a button-release pistol on horseback since, but pack a revolver.
The other NIH bit of idiocy is the really elegant Steyr frame safety which takes two fingers to engage, but a simple flick of the trigger finger to disengage.