Have you used the rope much where it is being put under the stress of a climber's weight? Lowering someone off a sport route for example, or lowering someone after they have top roped?

I'm really interested in whether Beal have found a way of making a rope rated for single use that is this light and thin, without just reducing its sheath thickness/abrasion resistance. I reviewed the 8.6 Edelrid Corbie about 8 years ago https://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/climbing/ropes/edelrid_corbie_-_for_when_weight_is_everything-6738 I think it was a bit of a disaster for Edelrid as I found the ropes were incredibly delicate, and from two days general cragging with the ropes, I got two coreshots that required cutting down the rope both times. My 70 mtr rope very quickly became much shorter! One of the super friendly engineers from Edelrid in Germany actually called me and basically said they had made it as a sort of "concept-rope" - it won an ISPO award, although they seem to be more marketing device than anything else - and their UK PR shouldn't really have sent them out to be used like other 'normal' ropes. But they were selling them, they were in the shops, so our review pointing out how subject to abrasion they seemed to be wasn't unfair. I do remember noticing the model was quietly dropped from the product line up the next year.

I imagine technology has moved on again - perhaps the unicore construction helps - so perhaps Beal has managed to go down as far as 8.5 and still have it reasonably tough. I'm still using two Beal Jokers, which are now over 10 years old - one from this review https://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/climbing/ropes/the_ultimate_in_versatility_triple_rated_ropes-3765 and one that I bought myself for complicated reasons I can't quite remember! I've chopped down one of them a bit, but they are both looking ok considering they have both seen a reasonable amount of use over that time. I've been impressed with durability of number of different Beals I've had actually.