The folks who might be in the best position to pay for this rig are also (generally speaking...) going to be older, and perhaps more "set in their ways".
How many times have you heard your folks say something like "Because it's ALWAYS been done this say: that's why!"
(I wish I had a penny for every time that I heard it...
)
Incremental steps in rapidly changing technologies might be easier to folks like this to swallow.
This is not really about the product now: it's about getting it accepted by the paying public.