if NFA laws weren't so stupid would a "pistol brace" even be a thing?

I find a lot of things interesting about this ruling.
1. I find it interesting that noveske hasn't said anything.
2 I find it interesting that people think trump approved this (like he is intimately into what the ATF does)
3. I find the amount of people cheering because they dislike Q and the owner pretty sad (although the comments asking why he doesn't just hold up a cardboard sign telling the ATF to shove off are pretty funny)
4. I find the timing suspect. Why would the ATF want to paint the trump administration as anti-2A 30 days before a national election. I would think the timing would definitely keep some gun owners to stay home. I see it already in the 10000000 instagram posts and forum posts on these topics.
5. This sucks for all the NJ gun owners that have been buying 26" "other firearm" non NFA items the last year or two by the boatloads. I see more new gun owners buying 12" barreled AR pistols with vertical fore grips than I do standard ARs. All it takes is them ruling all AR pistol braces as stocks and now these people created federal SBRs without the tax, and even worse ASSAULT WEAPONS under NJ law.