Well, I don't get this kite (marketing). It looks just another mid AR foil kite, with mid AR foil kite properties. Not saying there is many such available. FS produced similar kites before they went all in to Speeds (and LEIs), it was many years ago... Even then FS had some technically advanced details I can't find in Hyperlink. I'm sure HL would lose against Sp3 with jump height and hangtime, upwind and wind range. Would it do better against P3 or P4, perhaps but I wouldn't bet on it.
Everything in the kite seems ordinary, except that valve configuration. I don't see much benefit because closed foils work well in snowkiting, in fact they are better than open cell kites in some respects.
It would be interesting to hear what new there is in that kite. "Minimal bridle" is somehow simple, but there is a lot of excessive line involved. Would it be even more "minimal" if also secondary level was ditched? Canopy looks clean, like Ozones have for a long time. Perhaps there has been some development, "design with OZ-CAD"
LE stiffeners are beneficial though.
Perhaps kiters just forgot how this kind of kites are:
"radius of the downloop is quite bigger with a foil"... "have to get used to the slower turning"... "undoing rats nest before or after kiting"..."water starting compared to lei was a tad tricky at first as the HL is pretty slow turner"..."i don't think i would ever consider a foil kite in heavier wind conditions..."
No doubt HL has many nice qualities, like all good compromises do. But to say it gives more adrenaline than a LEI is a bit too bold words - if not that adrenaline comes from undoing those rat nests
"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck". No matter what PR people say. For me Hyperlink looks more "old story" than "a new era".