I have no use for the sticks currently, as I’m only hunting my home property and 99% of that means preset trees, so I can totally get away with my heavier LW and XOP sticks around here and did so on public land for 8 years. However, I could see myself with a stack of those for when I get more time to explore state land again.
I also have no intention of giving up my Mission platform, especially since that’s the only thing I carry into the woods every single hunt aside from my bow, and it’s a nearly perfect platform in all but weight, but that platform is definitely calling to me. Again, if I had more time to stomp around public land, it’d be worth pinching a few pennies during the Spring to snatch a complete Hyperlite setup in Summer and dial it in for ‘24 season.
If I had some extra disposable income, I’d be all over the platform. Once I see how the stick attachment point behaves, the packability of those might even have me reconsidering just hunting presets on our property.