i have a p2 board right now, been skating it for a few weeks now and it still feels great, i bought it cos i get discount on skate hardware where i work so thought it was worth a gamble.
I don't know about it giving you "spring loaded pop" but it does feel like a brand new board in a way that a newly broken in board doesn't.
Skateboards are skateboards, but as you all will agree not all boards are the same, a 20 quid complete board will come with a worse deck than if you were to buy a chocolate costing 50.
whatever
The "technology" boards I've tried have been DArkstar's armor ply's and Armor Lights and they were both great boards, cost the same as any other premium deck at the time and and when the armor light cracked, it took fuckin forever for it to actually snap, so i definitely noticed a difference in that.
Im planning on buying another p2 board after the current plan b I'm riding at the moment, simply because it doesn't cost me any more than a regular deck and it feels consistently great to skate and hasn't appeared to lose any of its pop