Hey "Shark"
Don't worry about the "haters." All that matters is that you stay out there doing what you love most and stay safe while you do it. The merits of a taillight like this will always be debated, but as you know from experience, once you've ridden with it, I'd be hard to go back to riding without it. The world we live in now is filled with hugely distracted drivers, so it's nice to have something like the DS-500 that can almost qualify as a "weapon" in the war against distracted drivers.