No argument that the new kit is by and large better, but I'm just irritated by some of the new equipment being designed around very specific temperature ranges...
As with the new gloves, the options are the temperate glove, or the cold weather glove... I'm not kidding when I say the enviroment that I live/work in can swing from +15 to -15 in 12 hours. With the old combat gloves, you could just take out the liners at the warm end of the spectrum, and accept the fact that you were going to be a bit cold at the cold end of the spectrum. The new cold weather gloves are far far too warm anything more then a few degrees above zero, and don't even bother with the temperate gloves in any sort of cold weather...
Another example, the boots... as I understand it (And I would love to be mistaken here, so if I'm wrong, please correct me), the reason the old combat boots are in short supply right now is because they're not being reordered, as they're being replaced by the temperate boot. The old boot was an extremely functional boot, just a basic, full leather boot, useable with reasonable comfort across an extremely wide temperature spectrum, as well as being extremely durable. It's flaws were in it's soles (Speed laces and maybe a loop at the back of the boot would be nice as well). Unfortunately, as I understand it, there will be no replacement for it... again, same issue as with the gloves, no happy medium for what I would consider a normal Canadian climate.