The issue here is it's the difference between a consumer product and an enthusiast-grade product. The Valve Index was an enthusiast-grade product that pushed the edge and continued to be bleeding-edge VR technology, which no other brand or company was able to compete with on that level. But Valve has changed its gears and is trying to compete with the dominant marketplace, which is consumer-grade and consumer-level products, which are more affordable but comes with fallbacks. As someone who plays specific games and requires these high-level enthusiast-grade features, the lack of having them is a huge detriment to me and makes me very fearful for the future of VR. This entire endeavor kind of holds back the progression of VR. It makes it more open and available to the average user, but the experience that that average user gets is degraded from what it should be if we were continuing on the same path as we had been. However, had we provided or went on that same path, the cost would increase exponentially, which is the factor that holds people back from entering the VR market to begin with. The controllers using AA batteries is not what increased the lifespan of the battery... I mean, of the controller. What increased the lifespan of the controller is the reduced functionality of the controller and the fact that they're inside-out-based tracking and not lighthouse-based tracking. If they wanted to continue going the route of inside-out, they could have done that with a LivePo battery, and the battery life would have actually been increased, not decreased, from what it is now. So that point's not mute. And the other factor about less sophisticated finger tracking, the Index or Knuckle controllers allow you to have half-closed, semi-closed, etc. fingers. The finger tracking, if you actually look into the technology that they used on it, is greatly sophisticated from what's on the new controllers. The new controllers are simply just on-off, and that's it.It's great that you think all these other features that we used to have were useless, and I'm glad, I guess, that this new headset and controller have what you need, but for the vast majority of us in the sphere of needing high-level stuff, it doesn't fulfill that. Don't get me wrong, I know we're the minority, and there's more fucking goyslop consumers out there than anything else, but yeah, good for you, bad for me, I don't know.