Mkiss, I suspect engineers are unlikely to be those making THE decisions..? It seems perhaps more likely to be the bean counters who control/limit development and testing in a bid to get product out the door..?
Seems I was up to my neck in the transition years relative to all sorts of equipment from old style engineering to the then latest high tec. Old style being electro mechanical where it` operation/failure was traceable with a man sized degree of logic, as soon as control became miniscule and digital, manufacturers favourite expression to extend and retain control was on the basis of intellectual copyright.... Which required THEIR tecs to visit site to plug in a memory stick with ver.umpteen, in the HOPE of resolving the issue... All very frustrating for folk who were formerly entirely self reliant....Glad to be well out of it now, and in owning a non-digital Trad..
