I forgot:

My only metropolis was old, it still had the standard D-ring on the buckle, as opposed to the flat thing they have now (the D-ring had a tendency to slip through the buckle and go underneath the strap). . .

Anyway, it had a stash pocket, which my newer mini-metro doesn't. Does Chrome no longer include a stash pocket? I can't find anything about it on their site.

Also, I figured this one out myself while writing the post. . . Chrome bags no longer have an extra set of buckles near the bottom of the straps. These extra buckles allowed you to attach cylindrical objects to your bag (like bedrolls, umbrellas, or packages) if you try to put these things in underneath the buckles when they're attacked to the top-flap, the straps can't form a circle, one side will be flat, so holding something round is much more difficult.

This is all totally irrelevant, but I think it's real ****ty of chrome to get rid of those two features. . .