Syd, let's use the automobile analogy. Kayu Melayu is also still under development, more coming but it's an entry level oil. It's like the Toyota Yaris. You get the Toyota quality of build and badge but the vehicle is in a certain class level with other vehicles and is lacking in features compared to the Camry (Malaya) or the Lexus GX (Royal Maluku). Scent profile aside, there is a class (grade), price and quality gradient here. The grade/ quality difference between KM and Malaya I perceive to be greater than the difference between Malaya and Royal Maluku. When all is said and done and the 3 oils have integrated (again scent profile aside) RM should be superior to Malaya and vastly superior to KM. There's a video at AA blog of the RM incense grade woods being ground up for the soup pot. It sounds like Taha had a moment of madness and made a loony decision to sacrifice woods that had more value to be sold as heating woods than to be made into oil. The wood is reported to be from old growth Seram/ Ceram grandma trees. I was able to smell some of this heated wood and it appealed to me a lot.
I haven't been around oud oil for very long, but I realize already opportunities don't get much better than this to enjoy an oil of this caliber--unless the Aquilaria Beringan profile of this G3 (trying to stay true to heated wood aroma) doesn't appeal. I'll be dumbfounded if this oil is not a benchmark oil (to better understand grade/ quality) for me in the same way some of EO's oils are like Nha Trang, Purple Kinam and others for example. Don't give up on Kayu Melayu! Even if it doesn't turn into a beast, I like having some enjoyable lower cost swipes to enjoy and I suspect you and others might too.