So much for the Silvia I had been planning to get. Relatedly, I've been having trouble finding an under the counter water filtration system which does not involve putting the water into extensive contact with plastic. Maybe there just aren't enough people concerned about such things in order to affect the market. On the other hand, in-demand, easy & low cost to implement features such as built in PIDs have not made their way into mid-level machines as standard features, so maybe (baseless speculation incoming:) competing brands have an informal entente to add in improvements no faster than is absolutely necessary.