I guess the best way we can show our disappoint is with our wallets.........by not opening them. I think there will be plenty of people to purchase them and of course those that won't. Not everyone either knows or models prototypically. I am by no means an expert, I enjoy my modelling and collecting trains that to me look cool, where is the harm in that. If I am not bothered by the things that are not right that is my issue, for those that are don't by it. Hornby will get the message loud and clear.
I think they may have been trying to achieve a happy medium.