If you're going to start asking what individuals want you're going to get individual answers. Straight, pistol, POW, splinter, beavertail, single-double triggers, fixed chokes-tubes, 12-16-20-28-.410..26"-28"-30".. So what are you going to do, add up the answers and put out a single model that is comprised of the winner in each category?
Want a winner? Put out a gun that will sell for under 2k that will let each individual choose their own configuration. Just like Ithaca, and Fox and Parker and Smith did years ago. Early on they could do it with their low grades and then to some extent to their "field grades" and low cost guns.
I imagine with CNC machining it should be fairly easy, keep a bunch of different sized frames on hand, different length barrels to put on, buzz out a stock, send it out the door. Oversimplified, yes but certainly possible. But that won't be done, too much of an investment of capital for start-up, financial suicide.
I'm with JayCee, for that money I'll find a pre-owned gun.
