I just noticed that Ivan had bars as an option in his Dolch (and possibly others).
Is there another reason besides preference that designers exclude them? Is cost really that high that they don't think people will buy them?
Some people have a hard time believing people actually do prefer bars..
Then they think the extra cost (2 euro per set) would somehow blow out the MOQ requirement and is unjustified since "no one" wants bars over scoops..
If enough people talked about it in the GB, they might actually include it...
It doesn't happen in the GB, in doesn't happen in the IC, the sane thing to do is to skip GB's without scoops and only join those which include bars too (if you can holster yourself and resist skipping GMK's)
There are also misguided users who can't grasp bars+scoops could both be added to the sets, so they oppose you hard when you suggest the addition of bars, e.g:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=74183.msg1865146#msg1865146GB runners are usually hard core scoopers which take these scoops/bars thing like a religious alignment, it seems unthinkable for them to include bars too, it goes against their beliefs (or - they usually seem to want the keyset only for themselves and the GB/community aspect is just an illusion to fill the 250 MOQ) - in either case, the honourable thing to do is to just silently skip the GB (I usually fail at the silent part)
I convinced Sheraton to include bars+scoops too in his future GMK sets, I'm sure if Ivan runs another GMK GB, it would include bars again too, which is great
I think both Miami Nights and Sky Dolch should've included scoops too, although I don't care one bit for scoops, I know many people need it, used to it, yet for some reason, whenever the addition of bars comes up, many scoops users oppose it
On a personal level, I'm skipping GMK sets which have side-prints, double-shot additions like Q/mu etc., include only scoops, I seem to only enjoy simple alphas, so don't take my analysis/suggestions selfish, even if bars are added to some recent GMK GB's, I wouldn't personally be interested in them - yet I still make the suggestions in each IC/GB, so people who acquire these sets in the future could actually enjoy them and not be forced to live with scoops