Don’t know if I’m a hater but a bit sceptical. My heart is in the pure side of riding, I feel similar about TCs (but for Christ sake don’t intend to start that one now!).
TBH I only saw an MTB version of one a couple of weeks ago at Temple Meads, guy was going to BPW. I don’t read the mags and have young children so tend to ride Mendips and Quantocks very early in the mornings.
I’m really wondering how they fit into the ecology of the sport. I certainly don’t fancy having a good ride interupted by huge numbers of people having them but like the above poster, probably see most people using them at TCs which we except is a representation of the human zoo.
Thing for me and forums such as this is I’m normally behind the curve. whenever I endeavour to start a conversation, it normally seems per se by the time it’s hit my radar