I now have over 2000 shots through mine.

#1 no visible wear of the biscuit beyond the intial 25 arrows. I even looked at it with a magnafying glass and grabbed the strands with tweezers. They are not brittle in ANY way.

#2 Noise?? It' s absolutely silent with carbons, but I had to wax aluminums.

#3 The mystery fletching wear. I have seen virtually zero fletch damage using the recommended vanes by CAP. AAE and Bohning vanes do not show any noticable wear at all.

#4 visibility. Give me a break. Even when shooting instinctively you don' t sight that close to the arrow.

#5 Freezing rain and snow. The last of your worries should be the WB. What about your ice coated strings, cables, arrow and cams??

99% of the people on the net complaining about the WB and spreading falsehoods have never shot one.