Interesting that you've missed Festool from your analysis. It's much more the German quality system thing, for most professionals at least. It does work out to be good value for money if you use it a lot.
Yes, the Festool stuff looks nice. As much of our work was in pretty grim bits of South London (with some public access) I wouldn't have advised the contractors to bring their best stuff along, mind.
Interesting that you've missed Festool from your analysis. It's much more the German quality system thing, for most professionals at least. It does work out to be good value for money if you use it a lot.