Nico, you’re comparing a quad pocket rocket to a genteel business man’s EDC. The target market is on opposite ends of the spectrum. Price point is not particularly it at all. AND, the quad has TK’s excellent driver, only Li-ion of course, obviously Manker is making good use of it’s BLF affiliation and drawing the crowd based on output and membership.
Rey doesn’t have this background. Doesn’t have TK programming driver’s for him. Neither does ZebraLight for that matter. And have you bought a ZebraLight lately? (was it $40 or less?) I am one that doesn’t care for the ZL programming, pulled the driver out of mine and put a TK written driver in. I haven’t seen a light made by anyone that can put out over 500 lumens on an AA cell. Not even close.
A lot of folks want an AA light that can take a regular alkaline cell as well as the Li-ion cell. This fills the bill in a nice way and makes the power. Logically speaking, too much is too much, even for me. What’s the point in having a tiny light that can make a zillion lumens if you can’t hold onto it? I’ve made AAA sized Li-ion 10440 lights make over 1000 lumens, it’s just not practical though and the reality is they can’t be used in a normal environment.
This is not about what is best, what is cheapest, what makes the most burst lumens. This is about Rey, offering us a light we like. In much the same way that Old-Lumens sells anything he makes. Rey has a following of people that like what he does. I’m one of em. 
We’re obviously talking about a light in this little brass AA from Rey that is, as yet, unseen. Let’s get it in our hands and run the tests and see just exactly what it actually does before knocking it as an under performer, right? I’ll have one Tuesday and we’ll see what it can do.
