I feel your pain Kevin.
I used to be a dedicated Gravely guy---included in the stable was the biggest Gravely ever made with a 4 cylinder water cooled Continental engine---and then Gravely faded as lower cost alternatives from the big box stores took over the game. The name still exists but not the quality.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis