If you have seen the new blade.. if you have used the old one at some point it is very obvious that the new blade doesn't compare as you state. The new ones don't come close to the quality of the Chinese Oshlun 40T I have and use... nor the Steel City that came on my 5 HP I use to cut aluminum, MDF.. etc. made by Great Blade in China. Both of those are excellent blades for the price point and I use them often being in the shop daily. I also used a Diabo on a BT way back when and once tried the Freud Avanti.
But with that said those blades don't step up to the Quality level of my 2 Infinity's.. 2 Amana's. 2 CMT's.. 2 Freuds and I don't expect them to considering the price point. You more or less stated that also. So the bottom line is I agree with you about the alert. I have been using TS blades for 39 years running but... even if a entry level with no experience with blades could make a side by side comparison they could clearly see the quality difference also.
So.. good alert to those than may not be as saavy at this point and automatically associate Avanti with Freud when there is no longer an association!
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