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I was lurking around online and saw the new tilts. The grey ones look good. I don’t care for the extra white around laces on the black ones.

These miss the mark for me. I don't think reissuing them as a vulc was the right decision.
Should've gotten the reynolds g6 treatment imo.
Well they're doing the soletech thing, release a bunch of shoes on the same sole so you don't have to make another regardless of the upper fits the last of the rest of the shoe. If the last is designed with a slim upper, then you use the same last and add 4 more paneling layers to the shoe it's gonna look funky and out of shape.
I will happily skate a soletech shoe, but I'm not gonna buy it when they make something just to have another product to sell.
Think back to mid-2000's. Every vulc emerica/etnies shoe had the same sole as the Reynolds 3.
Same with ES now, use the same Scheme sole with different uppers to extend the profitability of the sole mold.