Filler and us amateurs have different objectives. Fillers objective is to put bread on the table. He'll play on any old thing, as long as he can make money off it. Pros played on Olhausen tables a lot when they sponsored events, even if the pockets played all wrong and they played on "World of leisure" tables in the world championship...They could make money on them, though, so they found ways around it. I'm not interested in finding ways around problems that shouldn't be there to begin with. If you put Filler on the worst table ever made, he'd find a way to run hundreds of balls on it. That shows his talent, not the quality of the table.
If the event has tables with messed up pockets or rails that bank insanely short, amateurs have the option not to go there and many people use that option, to the possible detriment of some tournaments. I know quite a few people that don't want to play on Diamond tables, for various reasons. I know of none that don't want to play on GC's. Sure, I'll play on Diamonds every now and then, because it's fun to do something different, but the novelty wears off. I do think even a lowly amateur, such as myself, has a right to object, when it's claimed that THIS is the way a table should play, when it's different from every other table on the market and in history. If this becomes the standard, then so be it, but it should be a cause of debate and I think it is a legitimate concern when a table plays so differently that the game changes. We've been pushovers for the manufactureres for too long in this game. We let them shorten the table legs, we let them reduce the size, first from 10 to 9, then from 9 to 7...Now these flipper game rails, what will come next, I wonder?