Ok, I'll play
Standoff distance, im oretty sure in this thread someone hasna pic of a tape meausre showing theyre the same as the beast sticks. If I'm wrong there, shame on me.
More surface area to stand on, eh, if the surface area is butted up against the tree, does it really offer much value? I don't know if anyone has ever complained about doublespeak sticks not having enough surface area- unless they were using them like a platform, and I don't thinknanyone will want to use these as a platform.
Rope and cleat attachment, I agree with ypu here. No debate.
"warm to the touch" carbon fiber,
Stop it! You can't feel any carbon fiber, it's a filler in the plastic.
no metal-metal noise, no debate from me there, either, except noise is noise when you're tight to a bedding area. You're still gonna wanna stealth strip or silence these in some manner.
single piece construction, eh, after assembly, so are most double step sticks.
Beast stick weights without attachment method to compare, yeah, should a CF stick being released in 2023 offer something significantly better than a stick that came out in 2017-2018?
The more I think about it, the more I realize these are definitely a gimmick. They're not CF sticks, they're plastic sticks with a CF filler. They're part CF, but mostly plastic. The injection molding plastic company that I work for now, and all of them for that matter, don't call a glass filled nylon, a glass part
Telling us they're CF is like a builder telling us that concrete floor in our basement is a rebar floor.
Peek resin comes in a CF filled version, it's great stuff. But molders using it aren't telling their customers they're getting carbon fiber parts. Latitude is obviously great at marketing. I just wish they'd be honest that they're selling plastic sticks.