I'm with you. Th high end bike world has gone the way of the computer and PDA world, bringing out new and soon to be obsolete products as fast as they gauge consumers will tolerate. I wouldn't mind, but while bikes used to be durable, they've become throwaway (or close).
Long service life has given away to selling "features", and/or lower weight.
Of course none of this would matter, but consumers aren't being offered a choice, and are forced to accept new products that are inferior to what they've replaced (for their purposes).
Now that good bikes are sub 20#s I'd gladly trade a few extra pounds for long, lower cost service life.
**** Keep in mind that my "new" bike has a 10s Chorus aluminum group dating from 2001, so I might be considered a Luddite by current standards.
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