Let's improve the Laser mainsail!

I'm not the biggest fan of the Laser XD. When Bruce Kirby invented the thing along with the wheel and sliced bread it was a nice boat. Car toppable and simple to rig and sail. And I know that Laser sailors have been working with the cat's cradle that was the kicking strap to get extra purchase a decade before the XD pack was introduced. But the fact remains, putting that amount of tension throuch a dacron sail will deform it in no time. And the sail is the thick end of £400!

Laser have kept the provision of sails very much in-house to keep the strict one design (and also prevent others producing a sail at half price). But I wonder whether they have given any thought to updating the sail design. It's the only "race" boat in the range without a mylar mainsail (ignore the Pico and Funsail). I'm not suggesting that the cut needs to be altered. But the sail could be made lighter and more durable for very little effort - reinforcing the luff so that it could withstand the tension better - ditto the leach. Or make the whole thing out of reinforced mylar.

OK, this might make the price rise by £100 but at least the sail might last a number of seasons. It would be difficult to put a fully battened sail an the simple aluminum mast and I'm not asking for a complete rig redesign. But the most complex part of the Laser sail is the batten pockets. So why charge £400 for a dacron bedhsheet?

Answers on an electronic postcard please.