Okay, we're all getting into severe personal taste territory here.
The position of the barbs with the oval O-Rings looks not too dissimilar to a Maze 3 at first appearances. When it's installed, it can be hard to pick the two apart at a casual glance due to the tubing in the way.
Fancy tubing within tubing outlets really isn't my goal, and it doesn't really suit a production block, it costs extra, and it causes many people to think "WTF?" and look elsewhere. It's not necessary for function, and it needs extra tubing and equipment. My personal feeling is that it's over-engineering for no gain.
Morphling1's outlet design was outside of my design goals. I wanted to make a symmetric block with respect to mounting. The block can be turned either way when mounted, and this means it may be more convenient for routing tubing in tight space scenarios. It also prevents the "Damn - I mounted it the wrong way and fried my CPU" type of problems.
ie. the design does not benefit from nor need fancy outlet approaches. The two-barb design is intuitive. The asymmetrical aesthetics argument really is a matter of personal taste, and as with most things, a taste which can be acquired rather than be an end-all rule to how the block should look, over function.
If y'all want it to look different, you're most welcome to grab one off me without the top plate, cut some extra holes in the middle plate and make your own top-plate to suit your tastes, which is a polite way of saying what GTA said: "piss off and make something better yourself if you don't like it!"
