I don’t know about that. They both look pretty nice to me.
It’s hard to say if the increased surface area around the emitter shelf will help at all or only a little since it’s such a massive amount of heat being dumped into it very quickly. Just having more mass in that area might help to increase the turbo run time.
I like simple design too, but please bare in mind that there are three XHP70 under its hood. Flashlight performance definitely outweigh "clean looks" for this case.
Flashlight scene has changed quite a bit over the years. In order to break free from MAP police, vendors have no choice but to produce there own in-house brands to satisfy our needs for better designs. Although these emerging brands might not be perfect, I can see that they have made tremendous improvements in a short span of time.
A rendering isn’t production. Chamfers can be incorrectly sized or completely omitted in production for many reasons, typically for bad reasons. Because we see it in the rendering, not seeing it in the production version is an indication of disconnect between the designer and machinist.