No.

In fact, just yesterday I was talking to Eskaybee about this, and I told him that I wanted to add another B/W pin to my lineup. Reasons include the fact that Stern pins do tend to feel very similar, while B/W pins seemed to have more diversity (obviously there are B/W pins that are similar too). Also, many of the B/W pins just have more "personality" to them vs many of the Stern pins, often with more humor. Not to mention a much better overall track record when it comes to artwork.

And while the B/W pins might not have the depth as the newer Sterns, the code on a lot of the B/W pins is something that I often prefer depending on the mood that I am in. Pins like AFM, MB, MM, TAF all have a fun, fairly easy to understand rulesets, with just enough nuance that it still takes you awhile to learn everything).

Some Stern pins have rules/code that is so deep and nuanced that I will never understand all that there is to learn. Some find this refreshing, but I can find it frustrating at times.

I couldn't disagree with your disagreement more!

Seriously, I always said during the several years that I owned pins like MM and AFM that I *never* got tired of the humorous call outs in those pins! And I'm still not tired of them to this day.

Callouts like "We must build an Atomic Blaster!" from AFM and "Not now, I have a headache" from MM are just classics that I love. Not because they are "laugh out loud" funny, but because they bring a smile to my face every time. And I didn't even pick the best callouts to use as examples!

Let's compare the callouts in many of those great B/W pins to modern Sterns, and it doesn't come out very well for Stern. I love my TWD, but try comparing the callouts of the redneck character in that pin to most of the B/W pins? Sorry man, no competition in that area.

You would have to go back many years to get to Stern's that had good callouts, with LOTR being the obvious example of a pin that can lay claim to some of the best callouts in all of pinball. Too bad Stern can't still give us that kind of quality.