Lewis ,
You might be right on your assessment of the ED127 , but mate there is a whole world of us out here that actually enjoy looking thru our scopes at objects , I am one of these and I never seen 'Star bloat' once in the year I used and loved my ED 127 triplet ,, I only sold this sweet scope because ,,
, I built ,, a 127mm Achromat !!! God forbid
with a Strehl of 0.92 but that's plenty good enough for my eyes .
Yes there are plenty out here in amateur astronomy land that just love looking with our eyes , seems a lot less stressful to me .
Brian.