I have many Lowrances and I also fish for a living full time all year so electronics are more important than most fisherman understand. With that being said I do not like the new page layouts and the new mapping on the Lowrances I do not care for the contour mapping etc.. I also think your not getting as much “bang for your buck” with these new units.
I actually went out and bought a couple of last years models because I like them a lot more than the new units. For me using the “ICONS” is very very important marking fish, structures, hazrards, rock, weeds, schooling bass, muskies, etc.. I do this all with Icons and the new units make it very difficult to get to the icon screen, where as the old units had a Icon buttom that you can just push and they pop up.
Just my honest opinion and I’m I own all Lowrances for my boats. I still feel they make the best electronics however I feel they dropped the ball on these new models with several features muissing or difficult to get to for the average fisherman.