I have a dog in this fight, so I shall let it be known that I am a distributor for PEGHEDS. There is no lighter weight 4:1 tuner made. I have had to do some repair work on some ukuleles, so plugging existing holes and redrilling on a diagonal (and putting a thin veneer front and back to cover the mess) and make them all turn one way seems to be well received as an option. I just removed a set of Gotoh planetaries off of a $650.00 ukulele. Four pegheds weigh about the same as one Gotoh. The difference is very noticeable.
I would agree about having a dog if this poll were about tuning machines.
As this poll is showing at this point 42:2:6, given a margin of error, and even comments that support non-geared tuning machines (or ones like pegheads), if I were to conclude anything at this point is that I know what I should do if I were to build "for the masses".
Fwiw, clients ALWAYS ask for the 18:1 open geared Hipshot tuners, as opposed to the 14:1 seal geared Hipshot (Schaller style). I like working with Jason, and he's THE reason why I became a Hipshot distributor.
Funny, every year at the Guild Exhibition, I'm ALWAYS asked what kind of tuning machines I use.
Funny, no one ever follows up on trying them (except one of the factories who now uses them for their customs). It's one of those unknowns that I'm keeping as a feature. Popular like Pegheads? Not even close. But I like it that way, and more importantly, so do my clients. I like to keep good company (LRBaggs and Graph Tech are in that group - no big secret).
I honestly feel a single-sided headstock looks hideous on a uke!
I actually have 3 instruments with "male" names. Ugly Monster, Beast, and Excalibur. The first is mine, the 2nd I nick-named when I strung it up, and the 3rd was named by the owner. If you think single sided headstocks look hideous, you should see the headstocks on these, with 10 tuning machines (Hipshots on the 2 recent ones of course). Not part of this poll, though.