Necrobump! Hello 2021.
Did you get any response to your complaint-request? I find MakitaUK rather disengaged from loyal locals and their website lamentable. Shame as I'm a dedicated user of 20 years' standing.
Nevertheless, thanks for collating the above info!
Perhaps your contributions to your own thread would be more honest and fruitful if you didn't usel language designed to trick or annoy. For example, 'to throw away [this anesthetic option]' (it's not being, it is instead, as you clearly stated earlier, being withdrawn from widespread use...