Asymmetrical lacing is "fun". It gives a fresh look to wheels in the market. The "theories" behind going radial NDA or radial DS all seem great on paper, but in reality they make little to no difference. Look back through archives of wheel iterations and you will find that companies have touted that they were great because they did it one way - only to swap to the other way a year or so later.

Studies, theories, etc. All great stuff. As an engineer I am just a likely to mentally m*bate over it all too. Problem is reality. My experience as a wheel builder has shown that over the long run asymmetrically laced wheels tend to experience spoke failures more often. Chalk it up to anything you'd like - spoke quality, build quality, etc....but I have found this to be true across multiple manufacturers, designs, build configurations, etc. It simply doesn't last as long.