Design Improvement: Ryobi String Trimmer Grass Shield

Being environmentally friendly is excellent, especially when green options can compete with their not-so-green petrol counterparts. Li-Ion battery technology has gotten good enough that Ryobi's new 40V weed whacker can hold its own against my Honda industrial gas trimmer, with one caveat -- if only it didn't get clogged literally every 10 seconds!!! It is useless on anything but Astroturf out of the box!
I would give it five stars, except in an effort to save two cents, they cut corners on the plastic leaving a large gap between the end of the pole, and the rotating head. The effect is that I spend more time tearing grass out of the front than trimming the grass, making this an unacceptable design flaw. I love everything else about this trimmer, so I broke out some CAD software and designed a device to help keep grass away from the shaft, and its crevice that does such a good job of trapping grass in it. A great product with so much potential, hampered by pennies of plastic mis