Gizmo,It's more for people who either create a lot of friction or play closer to the friction and need the ball to roll heavier and giving them a straighter angle to the pocket, rather than transitioning too quickly on the back part of the lane and having to cover a lot of boards. Low track players or extremely high tilt players will tend to like this type of layout to get the ball rolling and burning off tilt.
Yeah, that makes sense. Must be a region or house thing, we have soft backends around here, so something that rolls early and transitions slow is going to be a nightmare here. 2/1 initial to val ratios are generally where we hover around here.