I still don't understand why they made it .355 and not .357/.358, I'd definitely consider one myself.
The same reason they didn't make it a straight walled 40, which would have made a better deer cartridge IMO, but that's not what they were "shooting" for.
It's about components, expediency and ease (less steps) of mass manufacturing and not creating another AR bolt face.
They make more 9mm bullets in taper crimp configuration than they do 38's. They make more 9mm ammo than any other handgun cartridge.
It's about using (replacing) the manufacture of other cartridges, otherwise you'd see those other cartridges' ammo on the shelves....many of the guns and other cartridges are going the semi-custom route.
