Someone out there might indeed think it better for reasons which are opaque to you. Again, there's that choice thing, of which this represents some. I don't own one, nor have I owned the Dahon you compared it to, so I got no personal experience to fall back on regarding quality or "better-ness," only the macro view that more folding bike companies, more folding bikes, heck, more bikes period, is a good thing, rather than the alternative.