Quoted from Travish:If you are going to pinch a penny you are going to pinch ALL the pennies.
Basically; if someone can even anecdotally give me an example of Stern making a change that actually save's its customers money, that would be shocking.
The changes I can think of are to save them cash, or to put in fixes where their new cost saving method was causing enough costly defects that a course correction was needed.
Arguably some of the recent changes have been to "improve the pinball experience", but the recent boardset changes again seem to primarily be motivated by cost savings, rather than the end user experience.