I'm not sure about Seek not delivering, I don't see any complains about the current image quality out of the box. There were some gradients forming of about 5 degrees at launch, but that has been fixed for quite a while. And only reported by people here and Seek responded and fixed it
Also let's not forget the range:
What I'm not sure is why people feel inclined to post about Flir in this thread.
We can communicate directly from the Seek firmware to any USB host device, we have not tried yet to send more commands to it, but there are plenty but buried in this giant thread that keeps getting buried even deeper with non Seek Thermal info.