The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
It may not be important for a well known fishing rod producer like St.Criox with there $150 rods. But this guy seems to be just getting started or not. All he is doing is trying to best describe his product. As far as performance, I buy a rod for its performance and if I can afford to buy better performance I will. I would bet any Pro angler out there is looking for the next best thing in performance, so yes I think performance is important.
Um, I didn't mean anything negative...? IM6 is a fine rod material and will do for just about any type of fishing. I was meaning that there's nothing at all wrong with using IM6 graphite in a premium quality rod.