No offense taken my friend. I have asked myself this a couple of times already. I liked the idea of incorporating the larger backseat, heater mod, electric speed brake, increased gross weight, increased front seat load limit, and extra fuel capacity into the design. I figured initially building the airplane with the mods was the way to go. I also liked the idea of being able to complete a chapter with a Kit instead of plans building completely. Maybe I would like to build the fuselage and then buy a set of wings from AeroCad. Honestly, I had no clue that these plans are basically a copy of the cozy plans with some minor differences.
On the ripping Nat off topic, I guess I see it a different way. In my opinion, AeroCad did to Nat what Nat did to Rutan. Nat expanded the LEZ into a four place instead of a two place airplane by widening the fuselage. AeroCad expanded on the Cozy mk IV by slightly widening the fuselage and incorporating mods. There is an old article in EAA that was published when the Cozy first came out that hinted to the initial relationship between Nat and Rutan. Today you could replace the names with AeroCad and Nat. It was not a nice relationship initially between Nat and Rutan. They eventually came to good terms as did Nat and AeroCad. At least that is the impression I got from my amateurish research.
I was comforted by see that AeroCad had an existing agreement with Nat, or Cozy, or CO-Z development, or Aircraft Spruce, or whatever. Seeing that agreement made me much more comfortable with the purchase. Maybe this was a false sense of security? Well see. Its a done deal now.
Kevin