No disagreement with you there, jonny.
I have few reasons to be critical of SHS (in case you haven't noticed...), but track is where SHS really dropped the ball. Rather than announcing a #5 turnout, they probably could have developed the turnouts to match their other two radiuses and gotten them out long before the Sanda Kan Shuffle crippled them.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a lot of scale guys wanting to use S-Trax on their permanent or even modular layouts.
The good thing is it looks like FasTrack and S-Trax can be joined together with a very small modification and the geometrys will be the same.
If Lionel expands the S FasTrack relatively quickly, they will probably clean SHS's clock, track-wise.
Rusty