I am giving ST the benefit of the doubt that CPU speed and less memory will not adversely affect the performance of my setup. Either way, even if it were to, development of new features will most likely focus on the new hardware so that is where I prefer to be. Also, I must assume that this revision fixes hardware bugs and/or optimizes other aspects of the hub. Speculation I know…
I see no value in having on board batteries that leak. I had batteries in my v2 hub only until I found they had made a mess. All of my IT/HA/ISP equipment is under UPS so no need for batteries anyway.
Overall I am just curious.