Many people genuinely felt impressed by how quickly and easily the Woodsap mechs could reverse their damage in the field.
While the mech industry had developed many comparable solutions in the past, many of them came with their own set of complications.
Self-repair systems for conventional mechs not only took up a large amount of capacity, but also possessed an inability to repair particularly sophisticated pieces of high technology. They also expended their reserves of specialized materials rather quickly.
Biomechs fared a little better in this aspect, but their main bottleneck was energy. The organic machines often possessed superior recovery capabilities, but ran out of juice a lot faster in general.
The prototype Woodsap mechs did not magically solve all of these problems, but effectively addressed many of the associated pain points.
Master Laila Rebecca Devos specifically mentioned the word efficiency for good reasons.
