So exposed hoses is what put AGD behind the times in your book? Ugly and passé? Well that surely is a matter of opinion. Function over form for me...all day long. I would rather have my hoses exposed than have little crappy microlines running through the insides of my boringly milled electro that looks like every other swoopy spacegun, just waiting to leak. Never once had a problem with my stainless lines leaking. Macro and microlines? Nearly every time I play, I see someone fighting with theirs to keep them from leaking.