The downside with Kaizen (the Japanese approach to continuous improvement) is that they now feel they have to make changes even if only for the sake of change. Every year has to see new graphics, different this, updated that, even if the new is not significantly different from nor better than, the old.
The old English idiom of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' doesn't have an equivalent in Japanese and the problem with the old British way was that the makers couldn't see when it was broke so never did fix it. That was the bit that gave the Japs and now the Koreans et al, the opportunity to prosper.
I remember to this day seeing my very first Kawasaki Z1 in the car park at RAF Marham in 1972(?). I'd seen Honda's CB750 before but the Z1 was like something from an alien world and capable of a real-world 130'ish...
I was in a hiatus from biking at the time, more into rally cars and racing than biking but I remember feeling that someone, somewhere, understood what had caused me to become disenchanted with British bikes and that maybe this 'thing' before me was the answer.
It was another 8 or 9 years before the red and white Honda CB900F2C (Bol d'Or) catapulted me out of Mocheck on the south circular and into serious 3-figure cruising speeds and that was me back into bikes, this time reliable, comfortable, fast and capable of stopping with the best of them. Oh, and the virtually full fairing didn't fall off or rattle every few miles like the bolt-on Rickmans of yesteryear...
Ee, them wer't days