I have to agree, Jeti stuff is top of the line. Jeti USA could use a bit more tact in the way he presents himself, but you can't argue that he isn't right.

As for the original conversation, none of this surprises me. I got into RC just as the 2.4ghz protocol hit the market. I watched the countless threads come and go about random Spektrum failures. I saw the warnings not to use the 4.8v battery that Spektrum shipped with their earliest systems. I saw Spektrum's announcement that they had reduced the brownout reboot time from 4 seconds to 1.5 to try and get fewer complaints about lost models. I saw the replacement of the DX6 with the DX6i due to reliability problems, then the recall of the DX6i due to reliability problems (failing gimbal pots) and then the continued failure of gimbal pots on post-recall radios, two of which I experienced myself. The DX7 was a solid performer from what I saw, but there was still the occasional unexplained crash or lost bind error. The DX9 brought another flood of threads about unexplained failures. Sure, some of them are probably switch or wiring or servo failures, but it seems odd to me that you hardly ever hear of Futaba users having switch or wiring or servo failures in their planes. I guess users of all other brands are better at setting up and maintaining their planes.Every time in the last 6-7 years I've seen a plane go in at the field with the pilot saying, "I don't know what happened. I just lost control." I've asked if he was flying Spektrum. The answer was always yes. And now we have this, the high end receivers that have had so many failures that Spektrum has had to do another recall. That's not a move that a company makes rashly. Recalls are expensive, and are only done to prevent complete loss of consumer confidence or to keep from getting sued.
I've said for years that Spektrum puts together solid designs, but rushes them out the door so fast in an effort to be the first to market that they just don't have the bugs worked out. They aren't cutting edge, but they do have cool doodads and gadgets that consumers want. As Jeti USA pointed out, Futaba doesn't innovate as quickly as many other manufacturers do. But they also don't use their consumers as beta testers either. Ditto for JR. I hope they keep the quality up going forward. I think Spektrum is a company run by salesmen, not engineers or users. That changes they way they do business, pushing their developers to get new features to market fast. Usually it works out just fine. But sometimes it creates the sort of problem we are discussing today.