I am curious why more hikers don't switch to those super light Titanium Esbit Wing Stove stoves using the Esbit tablets.

...My son used an alcohol stove because "word on the street" was that they could always find "Heet", the alcohol, in local automotive stores, but that Esbit tablets weren't as readily available.

If that is the main reason, it doesn't seem too big a deal to get the tablets stocked in stores that hikers frequent.

At least using a tablet, if it gets kicked over, a fuel tablet would stay in one place.