Completely agree. But if you want Olympic Games, you don't get around world sailing.
If you don't need olympic material, you are free and don't need to care about it.
BTW: I had a so nice Sonic 3 Hydrofoil session today with fog on a lake .
Yes, the IKA / Worldsailing /Olympic rules force us to not register normal kites. We tried to change it but without success. At the moment you only need IKA Registered Kites for World Championship, Continental Championships and Olympic Games. Sonic 3 is also an amazing race kite especially at sketch...
Here some more explanations about the Sonic 3 and how it fits in the range: https://flysurfer.com/2020/02/the-sonic-in-depth-guide/ The first Sonic FR was our racing and bigair machine. But as Racing become more specialized we need to make a pure and only high level race kite and the Sonic Race was ...