Got to say that having gone 29+ recently I can see how 27.5+ is going to be a fun bike to rag around the woods. It won’t have quite the mile munching ability of a bigger 29+ wheel though.
At worst, it’s a regular 650 but with a lot more mud clearance.
As for this ‘the industry’ coming up with devilish ways to **** us over, well that’s just horse shit – if we, the people, didn’t buy stuff, they wouldn’t make it…