I have been riding for 30 years (pre-fvcking pussy bindings, b!tches!)
I worked in the industry for ~20 years, owned a snowboard shop in a REAL ski town for 10.
My take?
Step ins were a great concept, but when faced with the reality of performance, they ultimately failed, sadly. They sucked to hike BC in, your feet wanted to pull out of them, the interfaces were unreliable, they just didn't pan out.
Oh, well, move on.
As to carving boards, they definitely have their place, too. I have certainly had fun on an 'alpine-free-carve' board in powder (and trust me, I have WAAAY more powder days under my belt than most of you).
A lot is the rider, and not the device under their feet (and that goes for skis, Tele, whatever).
It's just a bunch of white people sliding downhill, if aliens were watching ski resorts from the skies, they wouldn't really see much difference...
So that being said, how about those fvcking snowlerbladers, eh?
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