Me neither and when they changed it for AKC it irritated me. There are still things out there that are SAFETY issues that they aren't addressing (tire injuries??) and they're worried about the time it takes on the table? C'mon.
They did address tire injuries, they lowered the height of the tire. Which I agree, sounds stupid and useless, but in actual fact, it definitely seems to have improved things. Much less tire crashes. Which I guess on contemplation, does make sense, since the tire set at the dog's actual jump height would require them to jump
higher than that height to get through it safely, so dogs who might be already pushing the limits of what they can jump, would be really struggling to clear the tire.
I'd still rather see the displaceable tire, but fair is fair, they did do
something. And I still think we'll get the displaceable tire someday.
About the table... I'm another person who'd just as soon be without it.
If we do have to have it, I like the positionless table. Too much inconsistency in calls on a table with a required position. I've had dogs miss Q's because the judge wouldn't start counting until both of my dogs' elbows were on the table, which is fairly difficult for an excited Stafford to do (with the muscles tensed, chest and one elbow are usually all that will reach). And they don't have any hair to hide the daylight.
I'd prefer to run my dogs, rather than loom over them trying to depress them into flattening out.