Perhaps it is because you don't take the phone calls at HDS. Henry never was very active on the forums, but I can attest to Henry's extreme reluctance to do any holes and can state with 100% certainly that it won't happen on the current light. The next one, most likely it will on the switch cap like I mentioned earlier, at least that is what I'm pushing for or on the bezel (the bezel actually makes more sense because of how the Rotary functions and I can see the "the clip rubs on the light" and "the clip is in the way when I use the rotary mechanism" but then with it on the bezel there will be the "it has to be bezel down!" crowd... so the actual solution might be an S clip on the bezel...
I'm just an advocate of sorts. I read the forum and follow the FB stuff, and pretty much try to get Henry to to do what makes sense that people want, but with the holes, yep, he must have talked to a lot of people who didn't like them. There was enough that arewethereyetdad had his "get screwed" service. LOL!
As is often the case, there is usually a small number of people that are VERY vocal about what they want or don't want (I recall closing a thread on the XPG3 because of the negative comments that went out of control BEFORE it was even offered in an HDS) and that has actually been one of the best selling emitters... when the same folks say the same things again and again, I tend to ignore them... same as I do the main stream media. The same few people telling me the same thing over and over again doesn't make it true... unless it is Monkey Pox... then I'm definitely keeping my monkey at home.
I personally didn't like the holes in the lights, but I also don't like clips (unless it is for an M1 Garand and then the more the merrier). However, I will encourage Henry to do holes in the tail or bezel for clips on the next gen light as long as it is also offered without holes as well. At that point, we will see.