I can't believe this response from Stern in regards to their lack of promoting a product.

It's called projectional blame shifting, swinks.  

Rather than reflect inwardly on their own character defects they project themselves with defensiveness outwards onto others.

Plenty of people do it to protect their self esteem, particularly after having unrelated ongoing personal problems befall them.

Better to take the high ground and feel pity for them rather than to respond with matching hostility.

The downside is that in an online world that course of action will be interpreted by simpletons as some kind of weakness when it is anything but.

The refake MM uses a hobby/toy controller board and it is a complete joke that they are asking the idiotic money for it.

The controller in the MM was designed for HOBBYISTS to learn about microcontrollers and then use that knowledge to make a REAL PRODUCT!!! It was NEVER intended to be used in a finished, commercial product. This is an insult and demonstrates a complete lack of ANY electronic knowledge by the people responsible for this abomination (not Stern).

It certainly cements the value of the originals and the originals will be repairable LONG after these POS are junked.

Well said.  

It was a quick money grab as a direct response to a price spike (pardon the pun) with little forethought put into long term durability or robustness.