ok, but why not make it when sold with an adapter right away and a dripshield where you can hide the tube, then you have it perfect in one go instead of waiting and/or ordering other parts afterwards
That's a fairly easy question to answer. No one at notcigs knew that some people would have such strong feelings about the whistle tip they ship with it. Other PVs don't ship with drip tips, so how would one gauge that? I have a dozen or so PVs that I can see from where I'm sitting. Only one of them (the vvpv) came with a drip tip. -- And, just a "by the way"
mwa102464 had one of those donut tips made with a hole in it to accept the tubing. So, instead of expecting notcigs to have accessories you prefer, maybe your accessories should be your responsibility? I don't really know. top feeders just aren't very common.
As to "hiding the tube"... I don't have any feelings about the tube. I think it looks just fine. It is a top feeder after all.... But, several simple
mods come to mind. If you don't like it because it looks like medical tubing, change the color with paint. Or, use
heat shrink tubing on it which comes in just about any color you can think of now. Another thing that comes to mind is to bend some brass, stainless steel, or delrin tubing (delrin being the easiest of those to manipulate the shape of) and make it whatever shape you like and run the tubing
through it. etc etc etc.