Outrage? Me?
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Outrageous!
No time (thank gawd, they all sigh) for a lengthy (by my standards!
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) exposition..... I started on Bohm but it didn't make the right sound for my taste for the music I wanted to play as I heard it, even though I think I modified the sound i made towards the sound I admired, within my limited skills at the time. Nor did the ornamentation work as well as I found it do so on whistle...... I wouldn't say Bohm
can't do it in terms of notes/fingerings played (alright, some are different, some effects possible on SS aren't on Bohm and vice versa) - in general it can, at least in speed terms, but the effects are different, lack clarity, no pop - even ornaments done using the keys on a Simple System are crisper than on Bohm, and of course there's no (constant) key rattle (I know a well set up, good quality Bohm shouldn't have much key noise, but it is there, if only from the percussion of the platter over the large tone-hole). Add to that a taste for old things, for historically informed performance (not just in music) etc. - it just appealed/made sense to shift. Trying out on old/wooden instruments (I had my family 6-key F flute from almost the start) as opportunities arose confirmed my expectations and taste, so when I could, I swapped and have never wanted to go back.
Of your list of motives (What you're used to / Fingering / Tone / Ornamentation / Tradition / Aesthetics / Other), I'd take all the central 5, admit that latterly the first is pertinent and I could probably think of some others too.....
I don't object in any silly purist way to people playing trad (or Baroque/Classical) music on Bohm flute (viz that young Tara Breen YT clip with her playing a wooden Bohm we discussed a while back)..... , especially if their playing evinces that they have at least made an effort to understand and use appropriate idioms, but I am almost never satisfied by their playing/sound.
In my own playing I don't aim or claim to achieve some kind of "authenticity" to anyone's definition of "The Tradition" - I just play as best I can in a way generally within my perceptions of the tradition, but often pushing at my own and maybe its limitations - "authentic" in spirit if not in detail, though not in some woolly, new-age way. Hence I prefer 8-key flutes and like to play pieces that explore and exploit the keys.