By the same token, they did seem to offer some really NICE cabinets, at least until the late 60s. But after the early 70s, it seems like you couldn't get a nice cabinet even if you had the bread.
I can only figure they had to go cheap on the cabinets to have any hope of selling against the wave of cheap import sets. You can't keep building hand-wired, steel chassis sets with huge transformers forever.
Far as I'm concerned, tubes and printed circuits don't even belong in the same sentence, let alone cabinet!
Too bad they didn't have me to write slogans for them.