^this year they must have wanted every one to get more techy, if you think about it all there feature, stair-a-lizer, a handrail, c-box, a hip, those are all features that you have to be really technical one to do something really impresive. so to put in a smaller as the 'money booter' kind of goes along with that.
If we(skiers) are trying to copy snowboarders so badly, why then do we have two sticks under our feet when they only have one?