I generally like Hope products (for example, on my current bike I have Hope wheels (albeit with Stans rims), Hope stem, seat collar and pedals, and a Hope NW chainring). I also have Hope lights. I’ve been very happy with all of these, though of course I do accept there are some very good alternative options – no doubt better in some cases.
But I just can’t get the logic behind buying these cranks. I want to like them – they look nice, and I’m sure they’ll do a more than adequate job, but they are really expensive, would require a new and expensive BB (for me anyway), and don’t seem to be lighter or have materially better performance than the competition. It’d end up being a cost of c£300 to get something that really isn’t much, if at all, better. (A little extra ground clearance might be significant, I suppose.)
That said – if you like them, and have the money, there’s no reason not to, after all, buying bits for our bikes is at least as much about pride of possession as it is about function and performance/value for money.
Summary – I really wanted to like these but just can’t get my head round a scenario where I could actually see myself buying them.