Maguras are THE brake for trials. For anything else, they are just a poor man's disc brake. And yeah, I don't doubt that Magura sells a high percentage of HS33s to trials riders. I don't think they care enough about us, really. But meh, we'll still keep using the brakes. As for making them worse, I don't think think they would do that intentionally. Either it's a mistake on the their part, or the 2005 levers are better for other people. It's not like they could save much money with changing the lever design.