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Red cassettes are no doubt nifty. But it's not Shimano's fault that everybody started taking the splines they designed for steel and started doing them in aluminium.
And yeah, epic fail with the bonded cranks. But Shimano are the giants of cycle engineering, and thus the myriad subtle details involved in making a multi speed chain shift perfectly and last well are going to be covered best by the company which has driven the vast bulk of innovation over the last few decades and employs most of the engineers.
I mean, just look at the 1st gen Red FD. Amateur stuff; state of the art circa 1980. Admittedly they've lifted their game since, but still