My advice: If you're buying a Demarini, wait for the CF9 to come out, and then buy a CF8 when the price drops. Use it for a year, and then warranty it for a CF9 if they turn out to be better than the CF8s. That's not guaranteed...the CF7s were nowhere near as good as the CF6s.
OF course, I would buy a Xeno from CoreSoftball20 anyway, since I'm not a fan of the CF bats. But that's one man's opinion.
Am I to understand you're advocating for someone to deliberately break their bat because the following year's model might be slightly better?
Is that just a "thing" to do now and I don't know about it?
Dave