[Lil' Lavery]

Not sure I buy a trend towards swerve or "butterfly" or octocanum or h-drive or anything else on Einstein. Swerve drives aren't new. They've been around for more than a decade in FRC. While they are often overrepresented on Einstein compared to their general FRC population, they're not an overwhelming presence (2 on Einstein seems about historically normal). The largest population of drivetrain in FRC, even among elite competitors, has remained tank drives and I expect that to continue. Even the best teams often favor the advantages in the trade-off of going for a tank drive. What they lose in functionality, they gain back in resources (weight, space, cost, machine time, programming time, driver training time) they can dedicate to other areas. There's a reason you see teams like 118 using tank drives now, instead of the swerve systems they were famous for in the mid/late-2000s.