The Majesty style took years for me to really like it. I suppose because I'm sort of a traditionalist, and old, haha. But once I let go of my notions of what a guitar should look like, and allowed myself to consider that styles advance, and that the guitar is designed to react quickly to everything you need to do, not unlike the race car analogy that JP himself uses, I came to really dig it. And once I owned one, I was done. It's an amazing guitar! And truly, there's a wide range of tones available as well.
Now that being said, I always thought the wider necks of the 7's looked disproportionate, which technically they are, since the bodies are all the same size. The only difference besides the neck width, is the headstock length. I felt they should've at least made the bodies slightly larger, even if not in the same proportion as how much wider a 7 neck is vs. a 6, but perhaps a half inch or so. Sure seems easy enough since they're all cut on a CNC machine. And now that I see the 8, it definitely looks a bit weird to me. But I imagine they had that discussion, and the result is what John wanted. But still an awesome looking axe, especially the fanned frets and angled PU's & bridge. Totally cool.