Suppose one of your favorite technical pen brands was suddenly only available in squishy ball form. Would you care about the very legitimate factory processes

Suppose one of your favorite technical pen brands was suddenly only available in squishy ball form. Would you care about the very legitimate factory processes that made them do it? Or would you instead buy one that didn't? I'm an end user for SASS and what they are doing for their own reasons is making me want to walk away.