Hey quit your whinin! You don't know what's in Carl Maceks head! And for legal reasons up until if they do or don't make the movie, I can't tell you why it's better. So there... take that! Sucka... Macross Purist knowitalls.
And just to let you know the Robotech team can design better mechs then Kawamori, but the same legal reasons keeps them from actually manifesting within the animation, comic books, or even get described in the books... but once it ends up (or not) in the live action movie... you'll eat your chocolate covered Ariel hating words Jasonc.