I have no idea what you are talking about.

By your logic, incandescent bike lights and NiCad batteries were a bad idea because they have been replaced with LEDs.and Li ion.

3 piece Octalink was well regarded when it came out. Enough so that a bunch of other companies tried to copy it with ISIS. And it stuck around for a long time. I was only phased out by external BBs, not by a desire to go back to square taper or ISIS.