Replying to NS Gear Guide 24-25 rant

What is the point of the gear guide if all the information about either the skis or boots is just copied and pasted from the manufactures website. I would love to actually read some proper reviews about skis I haven't skied before and that I am interested in buying but whats the point when the information that is posted on the "Gear Guide" is not even written by anyone outside of the manufactures HQ.

Makes me wonder if the "testers" even test the "niche brands" that are listed in the gear guide. Would be nice to see some proper reviews on the Surface, fat-ypus and 4frnt ski range, just to name a few. I guess I'll head over to TGR where people actually talk about skis and gear in detail and they aren't getting paid for biased reviews.

I haven't been on NS for a while but I have been doing some digging around the gear guides and they all read the exact same and they basically have the sets of same skis in them. I would have thought with newschoolers becoming independent, things were going to change.

Seems like an extremely lazy attempt to reach "yearly goals" set out by newschoolers.