Indeed...
Why buy reliable and proven equipment, when we can get NEW, UNPROVEN and FANCY sh!t, that hasn't even flown yet! AND we get to decide the COLOR too!!
Nah, lost my respect when they did that. Went pretty far when they designed the ships to fit those machines, without thinking it could end up like the aussie Sea Sprite...
Well, we'll see in 2011 if it was a good buy or not...