Short handed Explorer

[upsidedownbelt]

I have owned this piece for a couple years and love it. What was the general consensus on the short hands? Is it generally accepted that they were a mistake and that’s why it had a short run and RSC will replace the hands with the bigger ones? Do you think that when they changed to the longer hands they also changed back to the lume numerals because they just didn’t want to correct the one mistake? They wanted it to see like a different watch. Either way, I like both but was just wondering what the actual story was. The short handed version seems like kind of an outlier in the past decade or so.