Lately there's been nearly no new discussion of any fast foil wings on here (or any other kite website I've seen, but this is the biggest). Everyone at my local spot is on surf wings of various types, mostly Moses/Slingshot and Lift. There's more buzz about things like the Neil Pryde Glide than the Moses Havok, which I've hardly seen anything about (and doesn't look like it's available anywhere, anyway).
It seems the current state of kitefoiling is you're either in a relatively small niche on a Mike's Lab actually competing in regattas, or you've switched to a surf-style wing for anything else. Does anyone think this is a fad and faster wings will come back into fashion (maybe some more accessible faster wings that combine some of the traits of race wings with surf wings, i.e., larger area high-aspect wings), or is it surf wings for the foreseeable future?
Anyone have any thoughts on this topic? I'm currently riding a 683S, so it's not like I don't understand the appeal of the bigger wings, but I did always want to be able to do 20 knots upwind. I guess there's nothing stopping me from buying a race foil (except money).