Originally Posted by
Wildwood
Who thinks manufacturers would be returning to threaded BB if it was not a better solution?
This. But also.
Threaded BBs are easier to cost-effectively manufacture to tolerances which allow for ease of maintenance by home mechanics/inexperienced shop mechanics, to the satisfaction of said home mechanics, based on feedback from more than a decade of threadless BBs being out in the wild, versus multiple decades of the threaded BB. The combination of all those factors has led the industry to determine that the threaded BB is the optimal option.