If I may, I understand your plight BHB your trying to discourage alternate solutions to unite the community to force Axial to change their designs, add to that informing aftermarket manufacturers to redesign their products so that the whole community could benefit from it, dare I say you've become a YXL advocate ?? but your going about it the wrong way.
Isn't that the whole point of your mods, modding and making parts to make the YXL better and stronger. Ridiculing the work of others and promoting yours will just alienate and push them away which is the opposite of what your trying to achieve. From a far retrospect it looks like your bullying them to accept that your way is the only choice but if they don't have any other choice to choose from how can they be sure. Even if you have the data to backup your claims you really think they would stop thinking of alternate solutions ?? If Gandhi were alive and gave you a call to sell you a used automobile for a ridiculous amount of money will you buy it before seeing it. People come and go and so will their ideas they must be allowed to try and fail in order for them to do better and/or move on.
You treat your mods like your children you would protect them because they are your creations is it mind boggling to think that other people would treat their ideas/mods the same way you do. We are bashers, thinkerers by nature, we mod as a reaction to fortify a weak or flawed design, it is a way to express ourselves, would you rather people keep their ideas to themselves, be mindless drones because your mod is the ultimate solution.
Is it wrong to share their ideas to the community, give the community a variety of ideas on how to tackle a problem ?? Good or bad why don't we let the community decide, instead of ridiculing it and promoting your own. Let the idea run its course if you think its really bad it will show sooner or later, and if your thinking, it is just a waste of money and you want the community to save their money for something else, well ...... isn't that for the community to decide.
Lets just say for a moment that you have seen and tried all the angles even the ones others haven't seen yet and you know the end result, would you deny others to share the same experiences you had ?? If so ... then how can they relate to you, you might just end up looking like overbearing, overprotective and controlling, you wouldn't want that .................................................................
would you ??
Change doesn't come over night it comes with tremendous patience, if we only allow happiness in the kingdom how would its people know they are happy when they have never known sadness.