I am often amazed at how hidebound gun enthusiasts end up being. We (as a community) decry lack of innovation, but absolutely refuse to embrace anything less than about 100 years old.
Well, many of us have seen too many "innovations" that left the track. Hence caution and reservation are oftimes due. My favorite example of this is the .22 Jet revolver and cartridge, but examples are all over the place in firearms history. So after a while, "tried and true" becomes a watchword.. or words.
And I'm an example of an old-timer disliking the decocking mechanism of, for instance, the PPK (or PP series). I also dislike the switchover from DA to SA, even though that's an old design. OK, not 100 years old, but close enough. Some people say that's being hidebound and inflexible, but to me, it's just an impediment to accuracy even though I bought an M9 clone (Taurus) to try one out, with the full intention of buying a full-up Beretta if I liked it. The clone was a fun gun to shoot, but then I remembered what a pain the PP(K) decocker was and decided not to. (Talk about being an "old timer," that click when the hammer fell was very disconcerting. Eeek.)
So when you hear the "nay-sayers" on a new product, keep in mind that many of us have bought guns and calibers which soon went obsolete and then you just have an iron pipe bolted to a 2 x 4.
Say, anyone want to buy a Gyrojet pistol?*
Or an S&W Model 53? Comes complete with a ramrod to eject shells and a pipe wrench to turn the cylinder. And a box of ammo with 44 rounds left.*
Or an R-51 with its weird locking system they never did get right, even after durn near 100 years.*
Terry
* No, I don't have either of these. I was so curmudgeonly and so set in my olde pharte ways even back then that I didn't want to buy wun uh them new-fangled things.** Just a few fer instances. More abound.
** And I like rockets.