Why this conditional in TEMPLATEFEED always render "in stock"?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

The problem is that though the frontend has come a long ways, it sadly still has a lot to be desired compared to the ease of implementation and ROI afforded by MM4.24c OpenUI, Viking Coders Templates, Emporium Plus, etc. modules a decade ago. All of these solutions has been gradually disappeared and now requires extensive and costly custom coding to achieve the same things, technology over time should have simplify these this, yet in in this area it is significantly unquestionably worse.

This could be the case of "the devil you know" but, IMO, Miva9 is multiple times easier to build out and maintain that OpenUI versions of miva. Seriously, like ten times easier.

One reason for this 'perspective' could be that what one is doing in Miva9/Miva10 just wasn't possible in OpenUI unless you had a custom module or cobbled together a 'feature' using half dozen off the shelf modules, all the while 'giving' up on desired features.

So, it may appear like its more difficult, but I don't know of a Miva developer that would agree with you :)