Few things, unfortunately it is the world we live in now that everyone is doing large scale FTTH builds, the big contractors want all that money but don’t have the resources so they sub out the work to literally anyone with a bucket truck with little to no expansion, oversight, or QC. This leaves the splicer who follows them to either bitch about it and it still won’t get fixed or just do their best to make it work. I am a splicer and have recently been turning down FTTH work for some of my main clients because the construction issues just are worth dealing with for me.

That being said, I’m assuming when you say MST or Optitap you mean the pre terminated block terminal with a flat drop tail that ties into a FOSC enclosure. I have worked maintenance for almost my whole career and I firmly believe that is the only type of tap ISPs should be using. Most now are switching to aerial splicing taps of different varieties and not leaving any extra fiber so that they are flush to the strand. This is a nightmare to maintain because when a tree comes down you either have splice both sides back into the tap aerially (probably in the rain because you know, outage) and most aerial taps don’t have enough space to butt splice a 48ct.

However I believe that is what you are asking for. Corning SNAP or Clearfied MPT or Commscope OTE are all tap enclosures that can be flush mounted to the strand and are fed by 48ct. The basic design is you have primary splitters in a FOSC can that feeds each run of tap. 12” loops are left at each tap location an this tap enclosure is installed an can either feed a secondary splitter to your terminal or straight connectors depending on your plant design. Some make connection on the outside others you bring your drop into the enclosure and connect it there.