I’ve come full-circle from wondering why all motors didn’t have sensors and refusing to consider sensorless ones — to now wondering why they have sensors at all because it just adds weight & complexity and raises the failure rate and cost.
First thing I do now when installing a motor is clip the sensor wires off it.
The final nail in the sensor coffin is when the HFI firmware debuted… but even before that I was running sensorless BLDC on Ackmaniac 3.103