I think this is partly a wave of fashion. Yes, the open back tuners are lighter, and it's nice when a guitar might otherwise have a bit of a neck-dive tendency.
But in my younger years sealed tuners were considered a plus (at least I considered them so). The open tuners sometimes collected dust when stored casually (common in those days). That (and someone over-oiling them, which made thing worse) gummed up the mechanism, Sometimes too the axle/fixing screws came loose, even fell out.
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Guitars: 20th Century Seagull S6-12, S6 Folk, Seagull M6; '00 Guild JF30-12, '01 Martin 00-15, '16 Martin 000-17, '07 Parkwood PW510, Epiphone Biscuit resonator, Merlin Dulcimer, and various electric guitars, basses....
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