I appreciate the jump from perfect usable baskets to tone poles to emphasize your point, but it is kind of lost on me. My point in this thread has been, that all players on a course use the same baskets, all are faced with the potential shortcomings of those targets. New baskets have shortcomings as well. They might work better for your putt, but maybe not mine. I find part of the challenge is to adapt my putt to work on the supplied basket. Honestly, my soft, nose up putt, built around playing on Mach III's and Chainstars, doesn't work well on the newer, high end baskets. I guess we can blame the internet. I did not have videos, tournament footage and slo mo shots of pros pounding the chains. But, I still am fine with a basketball rim, with no net, a saggy tennis net, bowling alleys without modern oil patterns, steel tip dart boards... Nothing wrong with modern upgrades, I just don't think they make the older, serviceable equipment illegitimate.