I have refrained from weighing in on this issue for quite some time. I re-tooled my shop over the past 7 years with mostly Festool. I started because of the need for dust collection and got hooked on that and their quality. Overall, I am happy with them. I appreciate their build quality, dust collection, and performance--especially those that are innovative (e.g., domino). I have 15 different Festool "tools" (including MFT and LR32). I do not have a Kapex. I have a Bosch Glide 12" CMS. I just couldn't justify the additional cost of the Kapex years ago. The Bosch has performed extremely well; however, recently I began reconsidering replacing the Bosch with a Kapex for better dust collection. I will not until the Kapex issue is addressed by Festool. I understand Festool reads these posts. I hope they do. Frankly, its insulting to their loyal customer base to, at best, "explain away" the problem or, at worse, seemingly ignore it. As a constructive comment for the problem, I hope the US version of the REB includes some explanation of how the motor in it addresses previous problems (hopefully it does). However, I suspect the liability of acknowledging there was a problem will prevent that from happening; in which case I will not upgrade my CMS, and my view of Festool will be diminished more than it already is.