Totally get the aesthetics attraction for the CSMT which is why I bought it. I'm a sucker for atties with heavy engraving. The Rose V2 is very fussy to build though isn't it? Kind of worth it for that flavour and draw. The problem with the Rose3 as I see it is over-engineering. Being a British company I wanted to support them at the time but Eden Mods went rather OTT with the airflow and got rather blunt with people when they complained about the spring wire AFC. The top fill holes are really small and when you fit the top cap thicker juice that hasn't gone down the tank properly gets forced out. Juice flow works okay, as does the AFC when the spring is tight but it loosens over time. Sadly while I can vape it MTL it isn't as satisfying as the V2. Best way to describe it is the Snapdraon RDA with a tank on top of it.
You haven't really built until you've put a build in a Rose V2. The maintenance was one reason I stopped using it, just a PiTA to rewick. I've gotten lazy over the years and mostly use postless decks theses days that will take a 3.5mm+ coil that I can pull the full rope of Rayon through, thin and tuck.
I don't mind a little over-engineering, I actually loved the Kayfun V4 with all it's moving parts, the only problem with it was that 510 spring, no way to get a solid resistance for TC without heavy modification. In contrast, I also loved the simplicity of the FeV V3, awesome vape but everyone thought it looked like compressed air fittings.
Small companies that refuse to listen to their customer base are doomed, pick a diverse cross section of beta testers and actually listen to their concerns.
I tried a Snapdragon V1 from a friend for a couple of days and didn't really like it, seriously hot top cap, poor post design, reverse threaded base and so on. It was a very expensive RDA here in Canada and with all the issues it had, I never even bothered looking at the V1.5 which supposedly fixed a lot of those problems.
