This arm had about the best measurements I have seen for an arm dynamics in HiFi News
Yes. The arm looks nice, no doubt has smooth bearings, excellent finish.
What I wanted to reference were features in the old EPA arms not now present. How they compare with the new arm I don't know. Techncis EPA-100 arms had a damped (magnetic-oil-spring) counterweight action that was supposed to match cartridge compliance with the arm, reducing peak resonance (by splitting the main resonance into smaller peaks--how it was described). EPA-500 used different tonearm pipes to match cartridge compliance, along with (I'm pretty sure) a similar counterweight damping.
FWIW, at a different pay scale I've found that a small amount of damping helps on my SL-1200 Mk5 arm (KAB fluid damper) I get better arm resonance control, but the thing is, once it's installed it is impossible to easily defeat, so I don't have any hard data to support my belief. The Shure damping brush certainly tames the unusual and complicated Garrard pantograph Z-100 mechanism. The effect and improvement with that arm is marked.
PS: I just looked and KAB offers a fluid damper (silicon gunk) for the new Technics models, including this one. For $160.00 or so, chump change in the scheme of this machine, it would likely be worth a try-out.
https://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/td1000.htm
I've bought some things from Kevin, and he's honest, a straight shooter.