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  It's Sony.  They have a longstanding history of doing this sort of thing.  I've seen it at least as far back as the DV revolution, preventing their prosumer line from competing with their industrial and professional gear.  I'm sure they did some of the same protectionism going back into analog gear with formats like ED Beta and Hi8.   The phone proves beyond a shadow of doubt that spatial resolution is easy and cheap and there to dazzle consumers and not much else.   I'll get the popcorn and let's see some of these films shot on 4K smart phones instead of quality 1080P cameras.  I double dog dare them.

Use the Helios 58mm and most of the older nikkor AiS primes with a 52mm front thread. they only telescope ever so slightly back and forth throughout the focus throw, but you wont be using that part to focus anyways.  Pancakes also work really well, and small size ;)

What?   None of those accessories are any more necessary for the BMCC than an EOS shooting raw.  Functionally they're almost identical.  Post production is essentially the same.     They both require grading.  Starting from a baseline provided by your software's raw-reader is not indicative of your EOS footage needing less or different grading.  The dng reader is applying a lut that you can then tweak but let's be real clear here, all raw, if viewed without a lut, looks pretty much the same.  You are either looking through a lut or you're looking at a terrible image (assuming you don't have a high dynamic range monitor that costs as much as a German sports sedan).   Anyone wanting an equivalent style of setup with a base correction and exposure that they can just tweak or leave as-is can simply tech-pass their raw BMCC with something like Film Convert.  Or they can apply one of several film luts that have been made available for free out there.   Don't confuse the efforts of software coders to create a novice-friendly, fool-proof work flow for EOS users with a competing workflow that makes the exact opposite assumption about its users.

So yesterday I take my daughter and her friend shopping.  They're juniors as MassArt.  The friend saved money to buy a T31.  I had with me a hacked 50D, shooting RAW video.  You'd think they'd be into it.  They just rolled their eyes.  Anyway, she's saying she needs a PC for animation.  I say I have at extra one.  "You can save money." ... She says "That's what my Dad would say"  She starts going on about needing a powerful computer for this and that and I try to tell her, for tethered stills capture from an EOS camera you don't need a powerful computer.  Long story short, most kids in school, like everywhere in life, aren't interested in all the technical stuff.  The kids hacking their cameras are usually, God Bless Them, drop-outs :)  I'm sure I'm at least getting laughs from Pandetta!   So you'll have to excuse me Julian, I'm a beaten down Dad and it infects my posts and rationality ;)