A big cost of your emtb is the motor and it can make a huge difference in your riding. Avinox is lighter and traction control imo is better. It also has smooth shift, a new feature that lowers power when you shift, and tons of other features that help save the drivechain. Has navigation now (although heard it’s not great yet). Of course I’d ride one yourself and come to your own conclusions on if it’s worth it which may be a no. After owning Bosch, brose, avinox I think it’s totally worth it if you got the $$. Not worth going into debt over though!
Your wrong about the Avinox being lighter after you add the needed chain ring protection. I mean it might be lighter, but it's like 50-100 grams total or the like, something inconsequential. Furthermore it's more poorly distributed if you get the 800 wh battery. That's something you can actually feel and that over and over testers dislike.
My own '26 large Wild with a CXR is lighter than any Avinox powered bike I've seen spec for spec. Also the Avinox looks really deteriorates with the big E13 chain ring protection added, so that's gone too when the bike is set up. I tried running without chain ring protection years ago exactly one day here locally; didn't make it through a single ride before I was hiking home.
My Bosch Kiox has Nav plus HR monitoring and also a traction control setting. The Bosch has hard wiring for other transmission systems, but does not yet have Sram hard wiring or Smart shift with any systems. Those features will be here at some point. As much as I like the idea of being hard wired, as long as it can only tie in to a 12-speed transmission, it's kind of useless because that is simply the wrong transmission for an Avinox powered e-bike. It's too weak, too expensive, and has too low of gears. Plus the Bosch has some other features like jump count, manual count, etc. I think all that stuff gets me further away from biking and doesn't really interest me personally.
Either way if you sell your old Bosch Wild you're going to lose thousands and then in 24 months when Avinox upgrades again (for complete rattle removal I suspect) then you're going to lose thousands more on that. But that's your call. I get it, I used to spend a lot of money on bikes but I kind of got to a place where it wasn't really improving my enjoyment to do all that once I had a really dialed in bike. My Wild is the most dialed of them btw, what a bike!
The Avinox pandemonium is just insane and based around looks and Class 2 power levels above all else. Brawwp, Powerslider & killerade in particular seem to be ignoring critical thinking when it comes to this topic. It's just power, power & more power...
The Avinox's superpower is it's very tractable, that's it's best feature and really it's big real world advantage. Not because of the reluctor ring as that's inferior to the sensor that Bosch uses, but due to some programming that many testers clearly prefer. Bosch should try and emulate this in some settings. But I suspect this is a trade off between instant (Bosch) or slightly delayed (Avinox) pedal response that many testers mention.
Ps. This little sweet pea has cranks and goes 45mph and is for sale locally. Is this a step too far or 'still' a MTB? Where is your line, and why there?
What does RS stand for? Is it an Avinox disguised as a Bosch?