Best of luck, sometimes it works out. I was disappointed to hear of all your problems with your milodon pan, I am a fan of their pans so I hope it works out good for you.
Heck I was too and probably bought 5-6 of them over the years. He said they didn’t redesign it but I sent him a link to summits website and they had a 360 degree video of it and you could see the changes.