I have to agree in the sense that both of the new camos from RT and MO are more "open" than their predecessors in the sense that they utilize some lighter colors but I really do not see the contrast that needs to be there in order for them to really "open up".

That pic you pulled from AT above is not what I expected the new Treestand pattern to look like. I expected it to offer higher contrast of lights and darks based on earlier pics. I had expected it to look more like....



....but without the green.