I'm surprised you feel so strongly about this, like it's making you upset. Then to tell me my priorities are all wrong? WTH? I jumped in to help this dude, and give him a solution so his boots don't get torn, like mine did.
When my boot got torn, I didn't have the money or knowledge to do the repair myself, but I wasn't about to stop riding. So I've been riding, since October, through sand, dirt, dust, and water with an open/torn CV joint. The axle now needs to be replaced. I knew this would be the case. I'm fine with it.
nope, not making me upset at all

. not my atv !..lol. I just don't understand someone that puts a lot of money into making it look better ?, when the prob of a torn boot is, whats needing spending the money on, not what protects them !. fix the boot first, then add fancy gadgets , see my point ?.
No. You must ride in a place that is very different to where I ride. Every time I go out my CV boots are at risk because there are so many stick, branches, dead trees, cactus...that poke up into my Rancher's underside. I didn't spend money on the guards to make it look nice.
You and I look at A-arm guards differently. You see them as a look-nice accessory. I'm a function-before-form kinda guy. I bought those guards for one reason only, protect the CV boots. If I front the money for new CV boots, then go riding the next day and tear them again...it would be my own stupidity. These Ricochet guards actually protect the CV boots, and that is the reason I bought them.
Just look at my quad, I haven't updated the wheels, there's no fancy winch, there's no LED light bars, no goofy boxes, none of the ways people dress up their quads. For me it's about function.
I noticed rocks have already punched through the factory plastic chassis guard in several places. I ordered the rest of the Ricochet set so that I don't damage the drain plug or anything else under there. I'd rather spend the money elsewhere, like on a new axle, but at this point, if I don't put better protection underneath it, I'll end up having to repair the underside of my quad AND the axle. I'm prioritizing correctly.