Everyone to their own, but I can't imagine trying to swing a detector with that monstrosity attached. To help protect the control box I installed short sections of 1/4" thick foam cushions on each side.
Since all updates, according to Nokta, include all the previous updates, wouldn't it be simpler to just turn off, disable, or simply not use the features you do not find useful?
Only change I might make would be to replace the Phillips head screw holding the control box to the shaft with an Allen head or Torx head type screw. Phillips heads tend to strip out easier than these types under continued use.
I presume you sent Nokta a PM from their FB page and described the issue?
From what I've seen the few times I visited the Nokta FB page, a lot of the postings there appear to be by folks who either have never owned a metal detector before and appear to have not read any of the instruction manual for this one.
Guess I'm lucky. The silver coins I dig here come out looking like they were dropped yesterday. Clads are a different story. Crusted in a calcium/lime crust that takes a few hours of citric acid soak just to make them presentable for the bank.
Had I watched this video it might have saved me some time. But since I don't beach hunt I don't watch vids about beach hunting and I couldn't watch this one either, just a bit too urban for my taste.
Still running v1.09 and I've noticed that steel crown caps can often be identified in Park mode custom pattern by accepting Target Scale IDs 1-3 with IDs 4-10 rejected. With this setup, swinging over steel crown caps will often produce a good high tone along the midline of the coil but at the edges of the coil give an iron tone. This technique along with Ferrocheck is working well for me.