Sorry Adrian but im going to have to disagree with nearly everything you said there.

Pushers are not looked on as the underdogs by a long shot. You can fit incredible amounts of armour and push into a rammer which a spinner or flipper can only dream of. You dont need fancy fab skills or a lot of cash to build a spinner or flipper. Far from it. You could build one for next to nothing.

I would rather see a competition with 6 flippers, spinners and axes compared to one with 50 boxes.