Even with new lines coming out every few years? Blacked out from factory and then PJ'd with current retail line seems less redundant and makes more sense to me, unless I'm missing something here. Case in point Coric having to play with a blacked out H19 as the non CV Blade paintjob is now outdated. Had his prostock batch been black to begin with, there would have been no need to black out the old Blade PJ. Later, when he does endorse a line, that PJ can go over the black paint of his batch of racquets. Eliminates one whole step of painting racquets.