I did hear from Cummins: ( from Brian Marier )
"I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to our engineering staff for them to review for future designs and if possible, make whatever changes they can to make servicing this model more user friendly."
If you have one of these new generators, you can express your concerns to:
brian.e.marier@cummins.com
P.S. Aside from the oil change issue, if you have a new B with this Cummins generator, get ready for a very noisy experience!!! One of my friends who had been in my previous RT 210C popular... "Wow.. is that thing really noisy!"....