I agree, and that's a valid reason to not have a softboot carving board. However unless it's a powder day, there are usually opportunities to carve even on days when I'd rather softboot. So it's nice to have a softboot board that can carve well. It's fun to mix it up and surf some turns on the side of the trail, or go in the woods, and then lay down some carves on the groomed stuff, all in one run. Not sure this X-Carve is that board though, it seems to have even less nose than my Winterstick.