When I bought my first SV 8x32 and saw the amount of glare that it had under special lighting conditions I called Swarovski and discussed with one of their knowledgeable engineers. I mentioned the strong internal reflections of the old EL, referred him to Allbinos photos, and expressed surprise that nothing has been done to correct that issue when designing the SV. He was well aware of the issue and told me that "the baffling is optimized for the current model". I took that to simply mean this: if we reduce the glare, that exists only under special circumstances and can be easily reduced by using additional baffling, then we degrade the quality of other features that we believe are more important. That's multi-criterion optimization under constraints! When you test the SVs the glare is there, but when you use them in the field it is not that disturbing as it exists only in special cases. In my opinion the multi-criterion optimization used by Swaro works---the SV 8x32 is very likely to come on top when the Allbinos is going to test them, and they also sell well.
Peter.