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You will need to wait for Z8 or Z9 that will probably have these features.
I dont think that a battery grip is required for me in extended use as a stills camera. I cant comment on video. A second battery in my pocket is more than enough. But I agree that a vertical shutter is a big miss for vertical shooting.
We are moving to a new paradigm in cameras.
The old D3, D3S, D3X, D4, in the past were workhorses and are superceded by the new D5, and coming soon D6 but they are now are very much niche products for many users.
The newer cameras D500, D800, D810, D850 are hugely popular and sell well.
The Z6, Z7 are still new and first generation for FX sized sensors mirrorless cameras. They are very good cameras but are still not matured products like the D3 series, D4 and D5.
I agree that the camera world is changing but there are sufficient models above mine to keep me going for a few years yet.
My journey to the D4 probably makes me odd, my first camera was a Praktica LTL around 1973/4. In 1979 I bought an OM1 and over the next 11 years bought, another OM1, an OM2 and two OM4s I had motordrives on the OM4s and a wide range of lenses. I liked the small size of the OM system but Olympus let the whole thing down by discontinuing the battery packs for the motordrives. (Batteries already)
Thus in 1990 I was in the market for a new camera system, it needed a 5fps motor drive, spot metering, and AF, there were but two options the Nikon F4s and the Canon EOS1, the Nikon used AA cells so I went Nikon. Subsequently buying another F4s, an F90 and an FM2n, then in 1996 the F5 arrived, I got one of the first ones in the country. I bought another one the next year trading in the F4s bodies and the FM2n. My set-up remained that way until 2003 when I bought a Fuji FinePix S2Pro (a misleading name if ever there was one) Swiftly replaced by a D2H. Having used cameras with a grip for over 20 years by this time the only upgrade path was to stick with the top of the range, D3 x 2 followed by D4 x 2 retaining a D3. I have never really considered the other models in the range.
A rather long winded explanation as to why the current Z6/Z7 just won't do from my perspective. They may well be excellent tools but without either a control grip or a built-in grip I won't be buying one let alone replacing my SLRs. I was surprised that the D780 is also produced without contacts for a grip.