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If it suits your needs, have at it. Doesn't mean someone else won't think your perfect bike is fugly. :) I think DH bikes are ridiculous - just get a motocross bike so you don't need a chairlift. But obvs everyone rides different stuff and likes different stuff. Just like my bikes get ridiculed (I've owned a PX Zebdi ffs), everything is fair game on the internet and that's all part of the fun. :)
Nope, it's functional (just about).
I don't mind full rigid MTBs (I've owned a lot) I just don't like most 'throwbacks', retro stuff, etc.
Just give me round steel tubes welded to each other in a double diamond OR give me a wind-tunnel tested, absolute proprietary, pain in the ass to build, you'll never find spares for it, kill or be killed machine.