Komplete Kontrol S series MK1 keyboards End Of Life

I didn't really want to add to the discussion here in general because I knew how unhinged and polarized it would become.

When one user writes a story about "working trucks of a very famous company" , I really like this persons attitude and think the person right. But I also think the person rather not in touch with real life when criticizing the best life efforts of a N.I. employee that have had to make a hard decision on behalf of the company to keep the company competitive and improving products.

So about planes versus trains , I have not done the math on that but I will link to an article by people that apparently have ! : "Why you should choose a train journey instead of a flight" , and in the same go , then when someone starts to criticizing the best life efforts of another then maybe that someone ought to give a little more thought to the actual situation. And personally then I wold be surprised if the job of Matthew_NI does not involve the need of a certain amount of traveling making it all that harder to balance 'environmentally'. Then I see another attack from someone saying "you should live where you work" , but let me remind you that this is a discussion about a Keyboard not your personal political platform and if you have good ideas then advocate them where appropriate rather than trying to use them as personal flocking tool against company employees you are unhappy with !

Same goes for the use of 'plastic' when making keyboards. It becomes disconnected from reality when it becomes only sought used as a tool to facilitate a license to further aggression or venting because of unhappiness.

First of all I do not think that anyone have the right to make this discussion about the EOL of the KK MK1 keyboard into a 'have to stand trial for every design decision made by NI' as little as someone have the right try to turn the discussion into a platform for global political agendas or about the life choices of a single N.I. employee individual !

Secondly , with respect to design of keyboards and the use of plastic then I am sure that a lot of materials have been considered and that the decisions made has been the 'art of the possible' paired with the 'what is necessary' (the latter especially in very many ways) (Weight , durability in more ways , easy to clean , and so on and so on)..

So over all I'd like to ask, at least some, people to maybe, you know, take it down a notch or two ! , so that this will become a discussion about what it ought to be about , namely the EOL of a keyboard , that will keep working with the software you already have (until broken by event not controlled by NI) and that you can keep downloading same software for should the need arise !

Finally I think that we all need to remember that , even though we can have a lot sympathy towards people who feel their investment , and for some even their business , impacted by the N.I. decision, then at the end of the day then if Native Instruments did not take appropriate steps to make ends meet and also to develop new technologies to make new sales and so on (insert more 'go green' here) then N.I. would soon stop existing and people would loose all support and all downloads ! Because in the end then they need money as much as you and I do.