so basically you're saying to buy bad products so the company gets more money to improve the product? i'm not too keen on that reasoning. my ski shop got quite a few pairs of of last years reactors with snapped heel and toe pieces, mostly toe. line is really good about their warranties though.
i've ridden my friends chronics with the reactors and i like them, they felt really secure, you just gotta make sure to tighten them. the weight factor didn't even matter to me. i've skied salomon, look, and marker bindings and i really don't notice that big of a difference between different weight bindings.