I agree it's all marketing, both ways, bows are marketed with big depower, the C cheerleaders will tell you how they are so hardcore, because they want some street cred...
C kites quite smooth and stable and not that extreme, but still cool for
People who bash tend to not know what they are talking about, all kites work perfectly fine with some biased towards doing something or other better and worse, bows are still gay though and a lot of them suck at unhooking, you can read about it on
www.why-gayness.com
It's good to have choice, how boring if only one kite type/make existed.