I thought is was fun in it's own quirky way, it never gave me any problems either. I know the rear derailleur uses a sold wire "cable" and I imagine that they are not going to be around forever...
There is a guy on Schwinn forums that loves Positron/FFS so much that he converts all of his builds to it.
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