The company president stood up on opening day of the world's largest aviation gathering and told the whole friggin' world everything they know so far, with data to back it up. Then he told us what they don't yet know, and what they're doing about it.
If I could stick a knife in my heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust?
Would it help to ease the pain?
Ease your brain?
I don't think anyone wants suicide on stage. What they want is to be reassured that they won't be left out of pocket, and they want some indication of when they can expect to receive good parts. The presentation gave neither.
These are Van's manufacturing and QC errors and their customers should not have to pay for them. Plenty of us are now stuck with laser-cut parts emtombed inside completed assemblies, and changing those parts (which in many cases would entail removing the majority of the rivets in the assembly) is not a reasonable proposition that Van's can expect its customers to embark on in order to correct these errors.
What we want to hear is that an already-complete assembly which contains affected parts will be replaced in its entirety, FoC.