haha lets not blindly believe anything that ken rockwell says. there's a mix of good and bad info there.
i find it hard to believe that they wont be making a revision due to the vignetting on the new full frame cameras... but who knows if they would keep this one in production or not.
i bought my 80-200 afs for about $900 in 2004, and its been awesome. definitely gotten my money's worth