Isn’t that kind of the definition of Italian design?
Nope. Witness. Here is an Alan Record Carbonio. Simple. Lugged. Very Italian.
(Yes, I have one and yes they are
supposed to have 7400 DA on them with a 25.0 mm Campy seatpost. )
Now here is the exact same frame with a different fork, painted in Colnago colours for Rominger to ride:
The whole complete-Campy-group is a US-expectation fetish. Along with the paintjobs on later Carbitubos.
Changing the fork out was the one good thing Colnago did to that frame; the Vitus fork on the Alan-badged frames was a vibrating twitchy useless piece of cr@p.
P.S. The headsets shown in both those pics were second choice - first choice would have been a needle-bearing Stronglight.