Today I was out birding in West Clare with my new Nikon SE 8x32. I think this is the fourth pair I've owned. I tried to remember, while strolling around the cliffs at Loop Head, the number of binoculars I've owned in the last twelve years. I could only remember 43, but I think it's more than that. Some were repeat purchases (in particular EII and SE). I think that demonstrates a level of unusual behaviour beyond the norm, and I feel a bit embarrassed admitting it.
Although Dennis wears his heart on his sleeve, he has probably changed bino less often than I. We all suffer from Capitalism's greatest weapon, i.e. exploiting humanity's eternal anxiety to improve its tools or possessions, for profit. Dennis has taken a lot of flak on this and other threads for his switching of allegiances between brands, models and price-points, but only because he is honest. And he has taken all the flak in remarkably good spirit.
And now, after my personal and pointless bino-odyssey through alphas and second-tiers, through roofs and porros, through IS and non-IS, through 8x and 10x and lot of other mags besides, I'm back with an 8x32 SE, the first model of which I had 14 years ago.
We're all a bit like this, otherwise we wouldn't be on a bino-forum. Give Dennis a break. And applaud him for trying lots of binos.