I hear you! This is clearly a design flaw, and a fix would be fairly simple and something that could be retro-fitted to existing birds.This is absolutely infuriating! The frightening "stress crack" topic has been cover hundreds of times all across the web now. When a motor flies out of its hub things have come full circle. (I've reluctantly sent my bird in to DJI because of a random 400 ft spinning fall from the sky. Too much damage to easily fix especially for something that's still under warranty.) Regardless..... there really needs to be a serious competitor to arrive on the scene and raise the bar for DJI. I mean my event, many others and now this one is almost - I say this with all kindness - laughable. I've investigated others since I've had to send mine in for "assessment." When getting serviced through DJI I've found the average wait to get an issue resolved, fixed or replaced (for a product under warranty) is 70-83 days. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME?!
GoPro.... please.... show us the bird you've promised to release in 2016.
That said, the Phantom 3 packs a whole lot of technology for very little money. I know my wait time for repair / replace will be months. After searching the web all day I have become resigned to that fact. My wife, seeing how bummed out I was today actually told me to just buy another one in the mean time since it is something I enjoy so much. The thing is that two Phantoms cost less than anything else that is better.