Good to know....
I would say if the foam is honestly not good, reach out to Legendary. They have good customer service and may replace it. They caint do anything if they don't know about it.
You are correct.
It does come down to opinion, though, and that is my point in this post. A decades-long worker in the field said the new foam isn't worth much. Does he have an axe to grind? Possibly. I will, though, wait for a person to prove themselves to be off-center in the opinion category to discern such a thing for myself.
What is far more likely is the change of times. Things that used to be a certain way are no longer like that. Used to be one could join a dozen NPT fittings together and expect zero leaks. 'These days', it's only with the use of pipe dope, thread wrap, and thread sealant that you can hope for such a thing. Why? 'Cuz tapered pipe threads are no longer 'like that'...and the joints using such 'standard' fittings are commonly problematic.
Legendary is likely doing the best they can with what they have to work with. That doesn't mean or even imply that the end product is anywhere close in quality to what it once was. Plus, the bane of ANY product is to be, 'New and Improved!'
It's a curse of living past fingers-on-one-hand decades of time. Not only can you see the swirl, you see the drain and the tailpiece fitting of the effluent passage.
