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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6928012" data-attributes="member: 7006">Except that New Coke is a horrible analogy for 5E because they are in no way similar.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The correct analogy would be that New Coke = 4E.&nbsp; A direct and quite substantial movement away from the standard thing of the past in hopes of attracting new customers.&nbsp; However, that new item... while happily accepted and judged superior by some, was rejected out of hand by a huge swathe of the population as being too different.&nbsp; It just wasn't what they thought of as that thing.Thus... the proper analogy for 5E is that it is Coca-Cola Classic.&nbsp; A return back to the popular form of the past that made most of the customer base very happy and which actually bumped sales.&nbsp; But that there were still some who felt that this &quot;new old&quot; version just wasn't the same as the actual old version, and thus refused to go with it.&nbsp; But they were so few in number that the company saw the sales data and realized what they were doing was going so well that they were completely okay with leaving those few others behind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6928012, member: 7006"] Except that New Coke is a horrible analogy for 5E because they are in no way similar. ;) The correct analogy would be that New Coke = 4E. A direct and quite substantial movement away from the standard thing of the past in hopes of attracting new customers. However, that new item... while happily accepted and judged superior by some, was rejected out of hand by a huge swathe of the population as being too different. It just wasn't what they thought of as that thing. Thus... the proper analogy for 5E is that it is [B]Coca-Cola Classic[/B]. A return back to the popular form of the past that made most of the customer base very happy and which actually bumped sales. But that there were still some who felt that this "new old" version just wasn't the same as the actual old version, and thus refused to go with it. But they were so few in number that the company saw the sales data and realized what they were doing was going so well that they were completely okay with leaving those few others behind. [/QUOTE]

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