Phillip Hallam-Baker responds:

These things are NOT sold as industrial tools, perhaps once but
these days the majority of buyers are 'prosumers'. If the market
was just the trade Delta would sell less than a quarter of what
it does today.

Probably more like 10%. Most buyers are upscale woodworkers.

It is a pity that the manufacturers have yet to realize this.
They might clue into the fact that a designed for safety table
saw might have a higher WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) than the
baddly designed blade guards and splitters made to be thrown away

Yeah. And the designs are right there spitting on them. The Biese splitter and
the European crown guard should not cost much more to make than the current POS
guards.

Charlie Self
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Will Rogers