Pure Tele abuse, what do you think?

A truck ran over my Tele.

While I was in Disillusionland I couldn't help but notice this 'thing' from Fender. Thankfully it is a limited edition which means the stores are going to run out of them pretty quick and that will be the end of them.

My initial thought was.. just how much more abuse the Fender Telecaster can stand. The only saving grace for me is that one can still purchase a replica, made by Fender, original 1950's design Telecaster.
In 1959 Fender introduced a sunburst bound version known as a Telecaster Custom. This would of been a finger to the bound Gibson Les Paul's and Gibson jazz boxes. The short lived Tele Custom was dropped in 1969 and things really moved ahead. Fender designers decided to make a light weight hollow Tele with one see-inside F hole. This first popped up in late '68. I was lucky enough to own one of these at the time and thought nothing on these Telecaster 'improvements' at the time. More improvements came about a couple of years later when the Thinline became available with twin humbuckers. In 1970 came a new Custom. This time a hybrid with a regular Tele bridge pickup mated with their fat humbucking neck pickup, the Fender 'Wide Range' pickup with the Les Paul style control configuration of two volume controls and two tone controls. Were Fender feeling the competition with the recently re-issued Les Paul? Assorted Telecaster were popping up left right and centre and it was what I see as Telecaster (design) abuse where the original old 1950 was the only model 'real' Tele players wanted.
So now we have a new Tele, well it isn't called a Tele, it's a Meteora but it really is a Tele. Vintage butterscotch blond, single layer black guard, ashtray bridge with the standard Tele pickup configuration, three way switch with two chrome knobs. Yep it's a Tele alright. The electronics vary slightly in that the tone control has now become a bass cut control. What no tone control? Perhaps a concentric pot could have been an idea, top tone and outer bass cut but then I'm no designer. So what is non-Telecaster about this thing? The maple only fingerboard neck is straight off the Jazzmaster but with the 70's style Jazz Bass big block inlays. The body shape is an almighty design clash with the 50's butterscotch finish, silver sparkle may have been a better choice.
I think it is a shocker and like it's series mates, the Jagocaster, the Crapocaster and the Moondust, I think one container full of these 'Parallel Universe' models will quickly become a part of Fenders black history. Perhaps I'm just deluded?