Mathews released their parallel limb tech, short limb, long riser bows, what BT calls VLT several years before BT, It has nothing to do with the legacy. They explicitly stated the purpose of the system as being recoil elimination, force cancelation. Their mistake was not to push the system to it's maximum geometric posibility, allowing the Patriot to jump in there with a far more radical looking bow.

Beyond that, Bowtech is modeled on Mathews in looks, and features, and it isn't Mathews that uses the Bowtech cams. Bowtech for all their many features, don't look like hoyts, or High Country. They are an obvious rip-off of Mathews. It is also arguable that they are better bows, they are certainly better in certain areas, like speed.

I would never buy a Black Max. Some of the fast BTs have very shootable specs. There is no comparison.

Also on features like adjustibility, or the ability to get the bow you want with the cam you want, Mathews still isn't serving the public. I'm weird, I'd like a C2/3 with an Icon style cam, maybe someone would like to see them with dual cams, even if they are "worse" for certain things, why isn't the customer's preference served?