(to lower the linking amount)[/i]............which is a huge improvement on the earlier ones.
I agree it is a big improvement, but only to those for whom it matters. Which, I believe, are very low number of people. So it has a overall very-low impact as an improvement. Compared to, say, something like if they automatically dismissed the "screen takeover" when a notification occurs (low fuel, etc).
I bet if we checked the "average" owner, most never even bothered to change the linking from "High" (the default) to "Low", something that has been available from the start. At least that is a persistent setting.
Besides, if Kawasaki really wanted to improve the system, they would have just changed it from "High/Low" to "Low/Off" instead of "Medium/Lower" (or whatever). I suspect this would be possible with a simple software patch, although I am not sure (the way it is designed, it might not be possible for an "off" without a mechanical change, it seems surprisingly little information is available about such things).