You mean like 45 years ago when 40 mph was top speed and flashers where new and hard to understand. The yester year wanabes? It's good that things don't always stay the same.
As for the Topic. The only thing I have found about my Lowrance Elite7, is the refresh rate is very slow compared to my Humminbird.

I run both - 2 lowrance and 1 HB. I like the mapping better on the Lowrance. On the imaging, I might give a slight edge to the HB. No problems with any of the units.

Il like lowrance better for sonar but hummminbird better for side scan. just my thoughts

Lowrance has great side scan when set up correctly.

I run both
Hummiinbird is more user friendly
Lowrance has better definition but harder to operate

Asking for objective views is tricky... few own both to objectively compare, most like whichever they own, both will offer pretty well the same service and support I reckon, and people with both like both form what I find and offer up even less differences than people who only own one and prefer whatever they own.

It is like that with most of the bass world though... boats, outboards, electronics, shallow water anchors... people tend to prefer and back whatever they picked (for whatever reasons they picked it) and really its pretty well all the same stuff or it wouldn't have any market presence if one dominated the other in a large way. Personally I am not savy enough to benefit fully from such high tech witchcraft, so money no object, I'd have a hummingbird touch screen so I can just point and grunt and let it work the magic. I'd rather have something with the technology to make me look like I know what the heck I'm doing, than something with more technology. That's how I buy most gadgets...