Reply to "Continuing Saga of Lionel's poor new truck design"

I bought over 150 pieces of Lionel scale rolling stock between 2012 and 2016. I’ve been vocally critical of the move to the new design. I’ve concluded:

• The original design was industry-leading and highly desirable
• The new design is vastly inferior
• I believe the design was changed first and foremost for cost savings (that weren’t passed along)
• The thumbtacks were awful
• The revised new design (without the thumbtacks) is better than the original new design, but still significantly inferior to the original design
• There is likely no going back to the original design irrespective of how much we howl
• At this point, the new design is here to stay in Lionel scale rolling stock and we either buy it or we don’t, but it isn’t changing.
  
  

Just my take, and I might be wrong....