Oddly enough, Sticks, pretty much the same was said back when the Lynx/TOW replaced Scout/SS11. Sadly, career officers will have to compete with their colleagues from other arms when it come to promotion, and squaddies will maintain their tradition of ' marchin' hup an' dahn the square', as they have for generations.
The AH task will get done, though I agree, it could be done better. I would like to hope that our contributions on Pprune may make some further up the chain of command think a bit.