While I can understand all you wax-poetic about ti (I had owned a Seven Axiom, a Merlin Agilis, a Litespeed cycloscross, and my wife still rides a ti Litespeed Tuscany), as a pragmatic cyclist, for the same cost, at this point, there is noting CF doesn't do better than ti with the exception of durability. All these ti frames are quite flexy from my personal experience including the Seven (which was built as a racer). When I got out of the saddle on the Seven, if I am running 25mm ties, the chainstays would actually rub the tires when I swung the bike from side to side. For most of people (myself included), well built ti frames are probably all we need, but the feeling of instant power transfer on a modern CF frame is just night and day better.