If anyone still honestly believes the members of this forum are representative of the Tanos/Festool customer base, this thread should make it absolutely clear this isn't the case (pun intended).
If you showed this thread to most people thinking of buying a Festool product, they'd think we'd all gone mad. We would look like trainspotters to them, obsessing over every millimeter of height difference, worrying about handles sticking out, questioning the number of cases you can fit on a standard pallet. And that's all about the CASE THE TOOL COMES IN(!!!) not the actual tool!
Don't get me wrong, I like it. I'm a nerd. I'm a 'systainer-spotter'. But I also have a sense of perspective, and I know that the changes they've made aren't going to have anywhere near the negative impact some people have predicted. Tanos are a big, successful company. They will know that removing the height-matching functionality will potentially lose them a few sales, but they will also have run the numbers and calculated that they will more than make up for it with increased sales due to the new van racking partnership with Bott. Now, maybe they're wrong and they've made a massive strategic mistake, but none of us have access to the sales and market data that they have, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.