Now whos argument is circular? You don't like the Contax ST because there's not many around? There's not a whole lot of ZI's either! If it makes you feel better, I've also owned the RTSIII (and just about every Contax body ever made for that matter; RTSII, 137MA, 159MM, RTSIII, ST, S2, RX).
Bottom line, I'm not bashing the ZI!!!! As I stated before, I owned Zeiss exclusively from 1978 until 2001. All things equal, I will take Zeiss over Leica. I want to like the ZI! I've just seen too much bad press on how the ZI cameras have performed out of the box. I did not create this information. And these issues were not the case with Kyocera/Zeiss cameras!