Not a question, just an observation.

And yes I know I'm pushing the envelope so to speak by creating a bend pipe but nevertheless.....

This is what I'm working on and what it shows while in editing mode

But when leaving edit mode, this is what I get

It's all great that there's Visualize and Photoworks and how magnificient it is one can make very pretty and very realistic representations of models but.... how about having a 3Dmodel that is WYSIWYG?