I couldn’t agree more strongly with everything that you has said.
The only surprise for me is that you have confirmed what I have experienced with 12 aspect foils on waves and bumps. This is very contrary to the heavy consumer interest, for surf, in foils like the surge, piranah, suchi knife, code X and armstrong MA’s. Excluding the F4 offerings foilers seem to ride them in pretty large sizes. I guess that is a foil drive driven requirement to some degree.