Be careful what you ask for. My fear is that tractors will follow the path of automobiles, where automobiles used to be easy to work on, but now the designers are so concerned about "looks" that cars are now impossible to work on. Car example: back in the 60's the door panels on cars were screwed on with the screw heads visible. This made it very easy to remove the door panels if you had to work on the window mechanism or change the lock cylinder in the door. By the 70's someone decided that looks were more important and they decided to hide the screws and started using these cheap plastic snap-in plugs to hold the door panels on and made it very difficult to remove the door panels. By the 90's The dashboard, steering column, and console are tightly integrated with all screws hidden making it practically impossible to take the dashboard out of a modern car to (for example) replace the heater core. Could it happen with tractors? Certainly. A simple example: my bx-22 has a hole in the engine cover so I can remove the oil filter without removing the engine cover. When I first saw this, my immediate thought was "you would never see this on a car" ; now, if tractor buyers become attracted to tractors that look better, features like this will disappear! Now as far as the bx-24, if by curving the backhoe that adds functionality by giving a longer reach then by all means do it, but if they are curving the FEL arms and hood just for looks, let's get back to basics and keep tractors functional.
