If the base material is too soft, then yes, hard anodizing is pointless. ..BUT, if the base material is the proper hardness then the hard anodizing helps.
I'll stand by my statement about the steel basket being not only a waste of money, but inferior to a PROPER billet basket in our application.
Years of use by 1000's of banshee owners is all the proof needed.
The guys behind and promoting this steel basket are trying to reinvent a wheel that doesn't need it.
Sent from a van down by the river