I'm pretty sure he's bang on the money. I was in the same boat, I already had a half decent frosted glass and so, ddecided against treating myself to an F1 glass globed F1. When my old lantern died I went looking for the F1 again, only to find that they were making them with the gauze thing instead.
(*off topic* Other than wanting a smaller one with a glass globe, how do you rate the gauzed F1? *off topic*)