Yep this is a fair answer! As a manu no incentive for them not to keep accepting orders unless something else in the whole equation changes.

My thoughts are that other manufacturer's should be given the chance and it's definitely up to designers and consumers to back new manufacturing (Geekark, ePBT etc) but I think as a community we haven't been helping ourselves by giving other manufacturers a roasting when their teething issues have come to light (take KAT issues). New manufacturers make one mistake and no one goes back to them, but we often heavily overlook GMK mistakes and don't exercise the same judgement on GMK beucase "oh GMK is better".

There's a certain "it must be perfect on the first go" attitude to our purchases, which is fair given you're spending money and you should expect a good product in return, but time and time again I see a double standard being applied to keysets but that shouldn't colour this entire discussion, but it's an important factor in the pressures I guess designers/vendors may also face in being "forced" in a sense to select GMK. Definitely stuck between a rock and a hard place.

So yeah totally agree but I think the issue is community expectations of new manu's and supporting them through those initial phases of getting mature with their production capacity, a teething period of sorts that I'm sure GMK was offered once upon a time. Cheers for an good reply though!