Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
More settings mean more things to set up in an not optimal way. If you are a beginner Mountainbiker it's hard to tell what settings are good. If you are somewhat experienced you certainly can benefit from more settings to get the suspension to work like you personally favor. But that means investing some time to dial it in and do back to back runs with different settings on the same trails. More simple suspensions like Fox Performance work very well out of the box. In many cases even better than an "higher grade" suspension like Fox Performance Elite/Factory or Rockshox Ultimate that have not taken the time and effort to set them up correctly. Edit: I am not to familiar with XC-Forks (Rock...
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