From "Dragonflies & Warthogs: Defenceless Creatures as of 2019?"
Letter to Blue Ice (Aug 2019)
[...] What made these packs so good was their weight to toughness ratio: ballistic nylon on the Warthogs (base and lower front), 420D Cordura on the Dragonflies (base and front). They were stripped down, relatively light, yet super tough. Now they're just light with increasingly less useful features. It's a shame.
In our view these packs were not broken and yet, in attempting to "fix" them, Blue Ice have broken them. We very much hope Blue Ice will return to making high quality, tough, minimalist gear its primary concern and that this move of production to the Philippines is not a signal that cost-cutting is king.