Right, so...
Been doing some thinking regarding this topic, my initial post, what happened here, and so on. It helped me reach a conclusion; a few of them actually. The first was that I approached this incorrectly. Very incorrectly. As was correctly pointed out by some, I had posed more of an inquisition or an attempt to make Adam look like a fraud more than anything else. Perhaps I did do that subconsciously. I didn't feel as if I was doing it at the time; so I've gotta be honest in saying I did not entirely realize it had been going that way. That was dumb; I'm going to apologize to Adam directly. There's not much else that can be done with that.
That deserved that response(s) it got. Adam does this shit professionally and has built a business around it. He's obviously good at it. Who am I to call him out and criticize?
The second was that I failed to see that people were very obviously satisfied and expressing little concern with Adam's products or services. They obviously work for a good number of people and that is good. I spent all of my time trying to find the bad that I failed to see the good being done here as well as the happiness being brought.
Third, I didn't realize HOW competitive and proprietary tuning had become.
The other things this helped me realize have been of a personal nature. Sometimes it takes something like this (internet or otherwise) to reach those, so I got something out of this experience that was better than answers to my initially asinine questions.
I still have my reservations about wastegate actuators like the Turbosmart, but if people are happy with them and Adam is handling them appropriately (As is evident here), then that is good and it doesn't matter what I think. They're still not for me and that's okay too. I couldn't see that there were two sides to that coin before.
Even if THIS post doesn't get received well, despite the good intentions to offer amends, I'll still have felt better having said it. Many people just double down and refuse to admit when they are wrong or even to apologize. I don't want to do that here.
TL;DR - I apologize for causing a stir and for offending Adam and his work. I approached this inappropriately and I'll own that. I got caught up in my own bullshit and that isn't good. I hope that Adam can bring happiness to his customers with his skills and knowledge and help continue to try to push this platform to be better going forward.
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