What direction is VPI headed?

OMG more VPI bashing... what a waste of time! they're a great family company in a complicated market and they're staying afloat while negotiating a generational transition. Yet they still make top notch products and in my experience they're a model of personalized customer service. What more do you want? Of course they're not perfect. But many companies have diversified product lines (I dunno, Apple and Porsche?). Only with VPI does it become evidence of some kind of bad intentions. I don't get it. 

@jollytinker, I didn't read any VPI bashing in my question or in any of the responses, just a question of direction and like I said I am a happy customer, wow I can take bashing like that all day, just calm down take a breath. 

Their products are very favorably marketed. ,.......

jollytinker, Did you ever read or get a reminder from VPI that they have a (set) , cartridge alignment configuration? Not one time in my experience did Micheal Fremer or any one else remark on this issue. A total industry failure! Yet, we are left with the product that was marketed as such. WOW?

Give me a break!

 So even Bill Stevenson remarked about this recently. He had an issue as a  VPI owner and said that VPI offered a fix his TT. What about the rest of us?

What do I want? Well, I want a 40 year old company who advertises itself as "made in the USA" to act like it!

Why am I having to explain this?!  WOW!!

@tooblue  you're absolutely right - there was no VPI bashing in your original post and in most of the responses.  I'm responding to a general theme that crops up in threads here on A'gon, which I think is unfair. But I should have clarified that I'm referring to posts that are not actually in this thread, so Mea Culpa!  That said, I can't agree with you @slaw about this alleged "total industry failure." I've had great experiences with VPI and been very well treated by them, but I also don't expect too much hand-holding.  It's a company built by tinkerers, and their products have a certain amount of play built in. You might be pro-antiskate or not. you might prefer one cartridge geometry or another. They all require some kind of trade off, and that's just the nature of the technology.  If you want super simplicity then maybe a VPI turntable is not the best choice - there are plenty of other excellent companies and formats to choose from!  

VPIs decision to limit customers to one tonearm choice (theirs) by eliminating the armboard, starting with the HRX HotRod, is understandable from a marketing standpoint, yet probably precludes their newer tables from consideration by many, including me.

Dave