some really cool ideas there.
Some designs require a lot of investment and dedication to build efficiently at scale. And then you need to sell at a similar scale to get return on your investment. Not sure if that’s what happened here, but it sure seems like they settled for something that required less investment in production line. As well as not cannibalizing current products to the same extent, making existing production lines redundant.
I never warmed up to the Free series, but some of these would definitively have won me over.