Yeah I agree, get a tiny bit of dirt on the aluminum bolt on the mezzer and it feels like you are doing very bad things to the fork when you tighten it.Yeah, I take my wheel off for the mastodon to put it in my truck, but it's such a PITA. You can't thread the axle in the fork without the wheel there, because of it's stupid design. It doesn't line up well when you put the axle in, so you gotta rotate it around a bunch. I have to crank them down a lot too, otherwise they loosen during riding. For the supposed "advantage"...it's a PITA comparatively. Simplicity rules here.
And because it's captive it's a pain to clean.
I thought my bike had something weird happening that the rear axle was coming undone. Turned out it was just the Shimano hub with constantly variable preload, I fucking hate Shimano hubs!
It's fine with the Novatec.