Everyone loves the cutter they are used to, no matter how bad it is. There is a reason for this, they haven't tried or gotten used to a good one.
Over the years, I think I have tried just about all of them. In hand cutters, the old Keeton was by far the best, touchy as heck but it cut one great mat. I purchased a new C&H, it was a joke. My experience with that contraption is what prompted me to go with a CMC.
If you found a new model C&H that works as it should, I would be surprised and consider you a unusually lucky person. Either that or you haven't cut a double mat on it yet, or everything you do is fabric wrapped.
John