I can't tell if it's a knee-jerk retrogrouch reaction, or if my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I feel the same way. I am a mechanical engineer, I work a stone's throw from SRAM in Germany, and I also appreciate a good challenge to conventional ideas. But this seems to be going in the "more niche and less compatible" direction, when I'd like to see it going the other way.
EDIT: now that the coffee has had time to work, I like seeing innovation like this. I still don't like the not-simple-ness of it, but that's OK. I think it is not _for_ me, and that is also OK. It is good to have steps outside of normal design.
March 22, 2023, 12:03 a.m. - TristanC
I can't tell if it's a knee-jerk retrogrouch reaction, or if my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I feel the same way. I am a mechanical engineer, I work a stone's throw from SRAM in Germany, and I also appreciate a good challenge to conventional ideas. But this seems to be going in the "more niche and less compatible" direction, when I'd like to see it going the other way. EDIT: now that the coffee has had time to work, I like seeing innovation like this. I still don't like the not-simple-ness of it, but that's OK. I think it is not _for_ me, and that is also OK. It is good to have steps outside of normal design.