Cues and makers have sure changed bigly in the last decade.
I'm thinking that glued wood is going to be a largely lost art soon and butts will all be stickers.
Sadly.
There's a lot of near winners though...sidhom, bao, kiraz, and I think T.L. Tran is better than all of those too. And Heo is a beast too.
Many play, only one can win.