Originally Posted by
truthseeker14
Also would love to know what makes this RD a fatally flawed/fragile derailleur, as I have read on this forum. Thanks.
I think you've figured out partially why it's it's viewed the way it is- the difficulty in servicing... which means the unit doesn't get serviced, which then leads to failure.
I think it also probably gets lumped in with the sorta similarly concepted captive pulley Suntour Mountech- which had a very poor service record.