To be fair to him, there were plenty of people saying the same about there being "no need for semis" and IMO people with those opinions didn't think of the future. It was pretty obvious to anyone with a brain cell that this divide and conquer approach to fracture the hunting groups would be the start of something else, but no one listened. Let's hope us naysayers were wrong we don't get shafted any more than we have already been but i'm not holding my breath...
To answer the original question - yup, i won't be using them or H&F again, plenty of other choices.
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