The unfortunate thing is that it once again shows how Canon's wideangle program falls down. As good as Canon's tele's are, the wideangles are really a weak point. This applies to the fixed focal lengths as well.
24mm f1.4, 35mm f1.4 28mm f1.8 Canon EF are good lenses and I don't see any weakness at all in them . If you are thinking in APS digital sensor the new 10-22mm -I've shot with it- is a good zoom. Mind that zooms cannot -by design- be better than primes. I have experience with 16-35 17-35 and 20-35 Canon *and* 17-35 Nikkor and Canon extreme wide zooms are not the worse. I regularly use a 14mm f2.8 Canon and it's an excellent lenses. So I cannot see the weakness of Canon wides compared to other SLR lenses. Of course my 21-35 Leica ASPH zoom is better but is slower and has a smaller range so -up to the moment- there is no 16-35mm zoom better than Canon.
If lens quality is a must use Leica M primes but, again, they start at 21mm as the Voigtländer 12mm is not better. Perhaps the best extreme wide I own is the Carl Zeiss 16mm Hologon but cannot be use in a SLR.
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