Disappointing!  The original Merrell Moab Ventilator was the best shoe I have ever worn.  The new Moab 2 is horrible by comparison.  It's amazing how such simple changes can ruin a perfect shoe.  The heels are is looser on this shoe, which allows your foot to slide up and down constantly.  You can't even tighten the laces enough to stop this from happening, due to two other changes.  The tongue material is thicker and softer like a skater shoe and they lost the two extra locking loops at the top of the laces.  This keeps you from being able to pull the laces tight and keep them in place while tying the laces.

Overall, this just became a basic cheap copy of a once great Merrell shoe.  I expect to see a lot of these at discount stores in the near future.  To top it all off, it is impossible to find or buy the original Merrell Moab shoe, almost immediately after the introduction of the Moab 2.  Merrell must have bought up all the old supply and burned them, so that no one would know how good they used to be.  Luckily, I found a nearly new used pair on ebay recently, so I will have something to wear while I look for a new shoe brand.