The people who are gonna complain about something stupid like the master control system are the fools that want to find something, ANYTHING that they don't like and can make a big deal about regarding Stihl because they hate them so much and want to hype up their own brand. The other types are the ones that are so stupid and hard headed that they just need not reproducing offspring.
We are getting into semantics here. You want to call it a design flaw, this that and the other. The truth is like stated many times over before, LEARN HOW TO OPERATE THE MACHINE THE WAY IT WAS BUILT, or don't use it if you hate it so much. How arrogant and stupid can one be that if there's something they dont know how to use about this or that machine, car or tool, then they get in a fit and call it stupid. Like the world revolves around your stupid ass and every manufacturer has to make things according to your stupid specs.
Now we sell mostly a lot of Stihls and a close second Husqvarnas and I personally like the Husky control better because that is just what I was used to as a kid using Husky's. But there is absolutely no problems with Stihls system either. I will use either or and get it functioning in a couple seconds. Now we dont see a crazy amount of comebacks from Husqvarna owners with broken choke levers but we get enough to know that the problem exists. Most of them are homeowners from the Sears Lowes internet crowd and come to us #####ing. The homeowners that bought husky from us don't have this problem. Then there are the commercial cutters that break them occasionally because most of them are bull headed, stubborn man handlers. Now is this a design flaw on Husky's part? Now we are getting into semantics. I say NO, the problem is if the operator used the tool properly, they wouldn't have an issue.
This thread is dumpster material. Don't wanna bash a stihl, but in every thread that's all this guy does. Don't wanna bash a stihl but he wants to take 1 model from a rocket scientist who can build a rocket but don't know nothin about runnin a saw and bash the whole brand from it and it aint even the saw's fault. What the hell difference does it make what one does for a living and how nice they are. Don't mean a thing if it dont pertain to that man's profession. We get all kinds of car engineers, chemists and doctors that buy a tool to do their own landscaping. And they dont know nothin, 99% of the time and why should they? apples and bowling balls.