Yes, I understand the reasoning behind this change, it's just in actual usage scenarios it's not really practical. Looks good on paper, but in practice I could never get used to this UI and all of my lights that are following this sequence are just sitting nicely in their boxes never to get any actual usage.
In practice it's a longer way to go from medium to low let's say by following this sequence. Med > Hi > Turbo > Hi > Med > Low, instead of Mid > Hi > Turbo > Low for ex.
Also, if you're on Hi, you're getting right back to the same level (Hi) in 2 clicks.. which is not what you'd want.. Same goes for Med - Med > Low > Med.. again, not making any sense, just wasted clicks to get round in place. Not to mention that there's no consistency - you could either be in Med and the sequence would go up or it could go down.. whichever that you won't know when needed. Those are practical flaws in actual usage.
Should the sequence be the usual one, you would always know that from a certain level you've always going to go up a step. That's consistentcy, that's good for an actual usage case scenario.
Regards.
And thank you for taking this change in consideration.
If you're going to make changes to this light, you might also want to have more options for the emitter choice and especially the reflector. Give us the option to have smaller / bigger emitters and OP / SMO reflectors. The XP-L emitter is kinda small, and it goes just fine with this size reflector but what kills this combo for me it's the OP reflector. The hot-spot will be so smooth than it almost won't be distinguishable from the Corona, it will be an almost complete fade from center to whereabouts the corona would end and even further. Myself, I'd take this light with either the XP-L (not XP-L2 because of the tint shift) or even an XM-L2 or SST-40 and a SMO reflector. Should I ever prefer an OP reflector, I'd take it at least with an XHP35 / XM-L2 / SST-40 size emitter. It would also be a nice choice for whomever prefers more throw, to have an XP-G alternative with the SMO reflector as well.